He attended Harvard College (1960) and the Tufts University School of Medicine (1964), located in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1967, Brown founded MetPath, an American company providing clinical-laboratory services.
MetPath was acquired by Corning Glass Works for $140 million in 1982 and later spun off as Quest Diagnostics (DGX) in 1996.
He also founded HEARx in 1986, which was renamed to HearUSA and was acquired by Siemens AG for $130 million in 2011.
[1] Brown co-wrote, with Richard D. Hoffmann, the 1998 book Success in the Business Jungle – Secrets of an Entrepreneurial Animal (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Dorrance Publishing; ISBN 978-0-805-94336-8).