Marlon E. Brewer
Marlon E. Brewer, MD
Associate Director, Department of Ambulatory Care
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst
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From Teen Volunteer to Esteemed Physician
Dr. Marlon Brewer has always had a natural inclination to help others, and growing up in an apartment building in Queens with 400 families gave him no shortage of opportunities. If someone needed something, especially an elderly neighbor, he was there for them. It led him to volunteer in a healthcare facility as a teenager, and his interest in science, along with his admiration for his pediatrician, put him squarely on the path to a medical career.
Dr. Brewer was born in Liberia and attended medical school in Spain. On a trip home to New York, he visited his grandmother in NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and was struck by the empathetic care she was receiving. A decade later, Dr. Brewer joined the hospital and began a distinguished career of his own. “I feel that I am actually making a difference for people who sometimes cannot get the ongoing care they need,” he says.
Dr. Brewer has been the chief physician of the Medical Primary Care Clinic since 1997 and has been an influential leader of committees and initiatives to improve quality of care and patient experience. He is a longtime associate professor at Icahn Medical School at Mount Sinai and served nine years on the NYC Board of Health, appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In the early months of COVID-19, when Elmhurst was at the epicenter of the pandemic, Dr. Brewer was integral to the hospital’s testing center and headed a project to expand use of video visits to care for patients with chronic conditions during the lockdown.
Dr. Brewer has received countless hospital and community honors over the decades but perhaps the biggest marker of what he means to Elmhurst is the confidence he instills in the people he works with every day. “I take great pride,” he says, “in the fact that a large number of our hospital’s employees and their family members entrust me with their health care.”