As Dr.Brown considered her options for an advanced academic degree, however, she rekindled a childhood dream and embarked on a career in medicine. She attended Saint Louis University School of Medicine and was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine with Distinction in Research in 1999.

She subsequently completed her residency in internal medicine at Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, DC. She specialized in oncology after completing a rigorous fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.

Dr. Brown has committed much of her medical career and training to research endeavors, including work with bone cells, as well as extensive and innovative efforts in breast cancer treatment and prevention.

She and her partner enjoy golf, skiing, hosting parties and playing football with nephews.

Omnia El-Hakim

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His message was that businesses and professions must stay in accord with social ethics, or risk losing their autonomy, and one major social ethical issue that has emerged in the past decades is the treatment of animals in various areas of human use. He illustrated his point with numerous examples across all areas of animal use. The examples he used reflected society’s moral concern having outgrown the traditional ethic of animal cruelty that he said began in biblical times and is encoded in the laws of all civilized societies.

Dr. Rollin listed five major reasons for the new social concern that have occurred in the last half century. They are changing demographics, ethical soul-searching, the media attention, national leadership attention and the replacement of animal husbandry-based agriculture with industrial agriculture. His presentation focused on this last social concern.

For virtually all of human history, animal agriculture was based squarely in animal husbandry. The new industrial approach was not the result of cruelty, bad character, or even insensitivity, but it developed out of decent plausible motives that were the product of dramatic historical and social upheavals that occurred after World War II. He listed several examples of these upheavals, like the reason people left farming, technical innovations, suburban encroachment on agricultural land, and projected major population increases.

He said that currently both sides of these ethical animal treatment questions have agreed that social legislation has improved both animal welfare and science and reassured the public moral concern.

Dr. Rollin ended by emphasizing that professions are generally given freedom by the social ethic to pursue its aims. In return society basically says to professions it does not understand well enough to regulate, “you regulate yourself the way we would regulate you if we understood what you do, which we don’t. But we will know if you don’t self-regulate properly and then we will regulate you, despite our lack of understanding.” To emerge as “good guys”, he said the agriculture needs to proactively meet social ethics for production animal agriculture so as to not lose autonomy to ill-concerned legislation.

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