Clarence H Brown III

Brown, 72, is vice president of development for oncology for the Orlando Health Foundation and president emeritus of MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando. The Florida native has been a strong advocate for quality care in the community and the state. Brown has served as president of the Orange County Medical Society, and he is a former chairman of the Board of Directors of the Orlando Health Foundation. Brown also mentored one of UCF’s first medical students, and he is a professor of medicine at the college. He has served on the Florida Division Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society. From 2001 through 2003, Brown was chairman of Florida’s Cancer Research and Advisory Council. Brown was named one of the “Best Doctors in America” from 1996 to 2011, and in 1998 he was named one of the 25 most influential leaders in health care in Central Florida. He has been identified by Orlando Magazine as one of the “Best Doctors in Orlando.” Brown earned his medical degree from Emory University in Atlanta and trained in internal medicine, hematology and oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md.