With many pro-life advocates and families reticent to undergo prenatal testing and imaging out of fear that abnormal results will simply be used to push them towards induced abortion, pediatric & fetal radiologist Dr. Brandon Brown lays out how prenatal diagnosis may have a role in life-affirming medicine.
Dr. Brown is a pediatric radiologist, working at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health as the Chief of Fetal and Perinatal Imaging, and formerly as Director of Physician Vitality and Values for Indiana University Health. His clinical work is at the intersection of several areas of medicine as one of the founders of The Fetal Center at Riley Children’s Health, and he is a member of the Departments of Radiology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery, Philosophy and Medical Humanities. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on imaging techniques in high-risk pregnancy, MRI of placental blood flow and its relationship to fetal abnormalities, and perinatal ethics. In 2005, he served as a graduate research fellow for the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. He is currently a member of the Section on Bioethics for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
