A native of Missouri, Dr. Mark Brown attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City in a special accelerated program that allowed him to complete both his undergraduate and medical degrees in six years. He then moved to Shreveport for a surgical internship at Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport. Knowing he wanted to specialize in pediatric surgery, Dr. Brown completed a research fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and returning to Shreveport for a General Surgery Residency. Upon completion of his residency he performed another year of research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he was awarded a Pediatric Surgery Fellowship from this nationally-recognized institution. Following this extensive training, Dr. Brown returned to Shreveport as an Assistant Professor in Surgery at LSU School of Medicine, where he was promoted to associate professor in only a few years. Leaving academics in 1999, Dr. Brown joined a pediatric …surgery group in private practice in Houston, Texas, operating primarily at Texas Children’s Hospital. After six years, he returned to Shreveport to practice pediatric surgery, enjoying private practice and academia, serving as a clinical associate professor at LSU School of Medicine.
Dr. Brown is married and has four children, two daughters and two sons. He enjoys golf, grilling spending time with his family…and golf!
Dr. Mark F. Brown, MD
Dr. Mark F. Brown, MD
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- Willis-Knighton Medical Center
Fellowship
- 1993
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Pediatric Surgical Associates
2508 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop
Shreveport
LA
71118
USA
(318) 436-7726
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- Pediatric Surgery
- Abscess or Cyst Drainage or Aspiration
- Abscess or Fluid Incision and Drainage
- Appendectomy Laparoscopic
- Appendectomy Open
- Colectomy
- Cyst Incision and Drainage
- Duodenal Polypectomy
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy) Laparoscopic
- Hernia Repair
- Inguinal Hernia Repair Open
- Lymph Node Biopsy
- Open Diaphragmatic and-or Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia Repair
- Paraesophageal Hernia Repair Laparoscopic
- Port Placements or Replacements
- Pyloromyotomy
- Spinal Nerve Block
- Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) or Thoracotomy
- Accepts Medicaid
- AARP Medicare Supplemental Plans
- Aetna
- Aetna Better Health of Louisiana
- Aetna Coventry Advantra Louisiana
- Aetna Coventry Medicare Dual Preferred
- Aetna Medicare Freedom PPO
- Amerihealth Caritas Louisiana
- Beech Street (Multiplan)
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield - PPO Preferred Care
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield Federal Employees
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana - HMO Louisiana
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana - Medicare Advantage
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield OGB
- CIGNA Healthcare
- Coventry Health Care (Aetna)
- First Health
- GEHA (Government Employees Health Association)
- Gilsbar
- Health Plus of Louisiana
- Healthy Blue
- Humana
- Humana Choice PPO
- Humana Gold Plus SNP Dual Eligible
- IMA of Louisiana
- Louisiana Healthcare Connections
- Louisiana Medicaid
- Louisiana Medicaid CHIP
- Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (Aetna)
- Medicare Railroad
- Medicare Traditional Part B
- Anal Fissure
- Anal Fistula
- Appendicitis
- Cholecystitis and Gallstones
- Collapsed Lung (Pneumothorax)
- Diaphragmatic and-or Hiatal Hernia
- Empyema
- Esophageal Fistula
- Hiatal Hernia
- Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS)
- Inguinal Hernia
- Intestinal Atresia
- Mesenteric Lymphadenitis
- Pelvic Abscess
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Umbilical Hernia
- Ventral Hernia
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