She is a New Zealand trained Hepatobiliary and Trauma Surgeon working at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Center in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to surgical training, she has completed various training courses in aerospace medicine and continues research in this field with a focus on surgery in the microgravity environment, in particular the liver. She was a Research Fellow in aerospace medicine at The University of Oxford. She is currently the Secretary of the Space Surgery Association and is on the committee of the New Zealand Aerospace Medicine Society. She is the lead on the New Zealand Space Health Research Network and is developing a Space Surgery Research Group at The University of Melbourne. In addition to her position as a Hepatobiliary and Trauma Surgeon, she is also the Medical Lead Patient Access and Flow at Royal Melbourne Hospital, an Honorary Clinical Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Previous to her current positions, Dr. Brown was a Hepatobiliary Fellow at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Center. Prior to that, she served as Hepatobiliary and Upper GI Fellow at North Shore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. Her awards include the Aerospace Medicine Student & Resident Organization Best Scientific Paper, Runner-up for the Young Investigator Prize from the Space Medicine Association, the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Student Medicine Award, the Louis Barnett Surgical Research Training Prize, and the Padbury Trophy from the ANZHPBA Fellowship Examination. She has also won various scholarships such as the RACS Hugh Johnston Travel Scholarship, the Aerospace Medicine Student & Resident Organization Travel Scholarship, the Shaskan Scholarship for Principles of Aerospace Medicine Course, and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Surgical Research Society Travel Grant. She is a member of the Women in Space Aotearoa New Zealand, the New Zealand Aviation Medicine Society, the Aerospace Medicine Student and Resident Organization, the Space Surgery Association, the Space Medicine Association, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Australian & Aotearoa New Zealand Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Association, and the Aerospace Medical Association.