Department of Internal Medicine

Pulmonary Division

Samuel M Brown, MD, MS

Assistant Professor: Department of Internal Medicine

Office Address:

Intermountain Medical Center (IMC)
Shock Trauma ICU
5121 Cottonwood Street
Murray, UT  84157

Phone: 801-507-6529

Education and Training:

  • MS (Clinical Investigation), University of Utah (2006-2009)
  • FELLOW (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), University of Utah (2006-2009)
  • RESIDENT (Internal Medicine), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (2002-2004)
  • INTERN (Internal Medicine), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (2001-2002)
  • MD (Medicine), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1996-2001)
  • AB (Linguistics and Russian), Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (1990-1996)

Board Certifications:

  • 2004-2014 American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
  • 2008-2018 American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine
  • 2009-2019 American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine
  • 2009-2019 Testamur, Examination of Special Competence in Adult Echocardiography, National Board of Echocardiography

Clinical and Research Interests:

My interest is in understanding how the cardiovascular system responds to the stresses of critical illness. I have trained in echocardiography and analysis of variability in physiological signals in the interests of understanding better how to understand and classify the types of patients who present with severe infection or injury. I hope to use novel understanding of patient subtypes and physiological phenotypes to improve clinical care of patients with life-threatening infection or injury.

Select Publications:

  1. Brown SM, Benneyan JC, Theobald DA, Sands K, Hahn MT, Potter-Bynoe GA, Stelling JM, O'Brien TF, Goldmann DA. (2002). Binary cumulative sums and moving averages in nosocomial infection cluster detection. Emerg Infect Dis, 8(12), 1426-32.
  2. Brown SM, Lubimova AV, Khrustalyeva NM, Shulaeva SV, Tekhova I, Zueva LP, Goldmann D, O'Rourke EJ. (2003). Use of an alcohol-based hand rub and quality improvement interventions to improve hand hygiene in a Russian neonatal intensive care unit. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 24(3), 172-9.
  3. Brown SM, Eremin SR, Shlyapnikov SA, Petrova EA, Shirokova LV, Goldmann D, O'Rourke EJ. (2007). Prospective surveillance for surgical site infection in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 28(3), 319-25.
  4. Brown S, Kurtsikashvili G, Alonso-Echanove J, Ghadua M, Ahmeteli L, Bochoidze T, Shushtakashvili M, Eremin S, Tsertsvadze E, Imnadze P, O'Rourke E. (2007). Prevalence and predictors of surgical site infection in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. J Hosp Infect, 66(2), 160-6.
  5. Brown SM, Jones BE, Jephson AR, Dean NC. (2009). Validation of the Infectious Disease Society of America/American Thoracic Society 2007 guidelines for severe community-acquired pneumonia. Crit Care Med, 37(12), 3010-6. PMCID: PMC2783880
  6. Miller RR 3rd, Markewitz BA, Rolfs RT, Brown SM, Dascomb KK, Grissom CK, Friedrichs MD, Mayer J, Hirshberg EL, Conklin J, Paine R 3rd, Dean NC. (2010). Clinical findings and demographic factors associated with ICU admission in Utah due to novel 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection. Chest, 137(4), 752-8.
  7. Brown SM, Pittman J, Miller R, Horton K, Markewitz B, Hirshberg E, Grissom C. (In Press). Right and Left Heart Failure in Critically Ill Patients with Swine-Origin Influenza A Infection. Eur Respir J.