Samuel Morris Brown

Samuel Morris Brown (born 1972), a medical researcher and physician, is Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah and founder and director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain Medical Center. He studies two sets of scientific problems: how the heart functions during serious infection ("sepsis") and how best to support patients and families during life-threatening illness in the intensive care unit. In his limited free time, Samuel studies and writes about the human and cultural meanings of kinship, embodiment, illness, and mortality.