Col. (Dr.) Daniel J. Brown is the Emergency Services Master Clinician at Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is the senior advisor to a 90-person Emergency Services Flight and directs clinical operations for 13,000 emergency patients per year. He serves as the Deputy Chief of Medical Staff for 7 Squadrons at the Air Force’s largest Medical Group, with a $137 million budget, 39 clinics, and 61,000 beneficiaries. He co-directs hospital credentials, clinical quality, risk management, patient safety, and access to care for 1800 personnel, 220,000 clinic visits, 2600 surgeries, and 5600 inpatient bed days annually.

Col. Brown is a graduate of Brigham Young University after which he taught high school Spanish in Oceanside, California. He received a direct commission to the Air Force upon starting medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He graduated in 2005, receiving the Air Force Surgeon General's Medical Student Award and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He was board certified in Emergency Medicine in 2010 and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Prior to his current position, he served as Director, Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT) Advanced Course for the 711th Human Performance Wing where he oversaw all training and validation of over 1000 total force CCATT members. In addition, Col. Brown previously served as the 60th Medical Group Emergency Services Flight Commander and medical director, simulation center medical director, and on multiple 60th Medical Group process improvement, patient safety, and provider credentialing committees. With deployments to Iraq in 2009, Germany in 2013 as CCATT Director, and CENTCOM Tactical Critical Care Evacuation Team (TCCET) Director in Syria and Yemen in 2018, he provided expertise on the En Route Critical Care Advisory Council and Joint Trauma System En Route Casualty Care Committee. As an International Health Specialist, he developed joint en route critical care training and medical disaster relief programs with the U.S. partner nations of Chile, Peru, Honduras, and Argentina.

Col. Brown is married to his wife of 25 years, Erika Brown of Encinitas, California, and they have four children. He enjoys boating, backpacking, surfing, cycling, and music. He is active in the community, serving as an Assistant Scoutmaster and on a regional leadership council for his church.