Dr. Brown is a pediatric endocrinologist with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses on pathophysiology and clinical therapeutics for rare disorders of extreme insulin resistance, including lipodystrophy and dysfunction of the insulin receptor. She applies what she learns toward the development of therapeutics for these rare diseases as well as elucidating pathways that may serve as drug targets for more common disorders of insulin resistance.