Gregory Scott Brown MD

Gregory Scott Brown, M.D., is the founder of the Center for Green Psychiatry, PLLC, an Austin-based wellness advocacy platform and outpatient clinic, and affiliate faculty at the University of Texas Dell Medical School. His interest is in exploring the utilization of evidence-based integrative psychiatry, including complementary and alternative treatments, with standard-of-care therapies to expand and improve psychiatric care.

Dr. Brown received a doctorate of medicine from the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas in Houston, a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Rice University, and he completed the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-medical Program at Johns Hopkins. He trained in general psychiatry at the Dell Medical School, and he is completing a fellowship in integrative medicine with the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine. He also spent several years working as a research coordinator in addiction psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and is co-author on several peer-reviewed studies on stimulant addiction. Prior to transitioning to medicine, he studied oboe performance at The Juilliard School.

In 2017, Dr. Brown was awarded a SAMHSA Minority Fellowship by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and during this time he served on the APA Communications Council.

Dr. Brown is an advocate for the therapeutic value of yoga, and he enjoys practicing and writing about yoga. He is a registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) with Yoga Alliance, and he has completed additional training in the trauma-conscious yoga method. Dr. Brown lives in Austin with his wife.