page_title: List of Brown University people
section_title: Medicine
hierarchical_section_title: List of Brown University people / Notable alumni and leaders of Brown / Medicine
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles V. Chapin. 1910. "The Sources and Modes of Infection". John Wiley &amp; Sons, New York.
context_page_description: The following is a partial list of notable Brown people, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Brown University and Pembroke College, the former women's college of Brown.
context_section_description: Samuel Warren Abbott (A.M. 1858) – first medical examiner and first secretary of Massachusetts's first state board of health from 1886 to 1904
  Charles V. Chapin (1876) — Superintendent of health for Providence, 1884–1932. Also served as the President of the American Public Health Association in 1927.
  Lynda Chin (A.B. 1988) – department chair and professor of genomic medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; scientific director of the MD Anderson Institute for Applied Cancer Science; in 2012 was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
  George E. Coghill – anatomist
  Solomon Drowne (A.B. 1773) – physician, academic and surgeon during the American Revolution and in the history of the fledgling United States; member of Brown's Board of Fellows
  David C. Lewis (A.B. 1957) – Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community Health and first Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown; a leading researcher and activist on drugs policy issues
  Srihari S. Naidu, Trustee Emeritus, Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College
  Neel Shah – Executive Director of Costs of Care, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School
  Gail G. Shapiro – pediatric allergist
caption: Charles V. Chapin, Public Health pioneer, Class of 1876
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