Board Member Biography

Peg A. Brown, MD

Peg Brown serves as Deputy Insurance Commissioner for Consumer Affairs and is a native Coloradoan with over twenty-five years experience in health care policy. Previously, she was the Executive Director of the Colorado Association of Health Plans, former U.S. Senator Hank Brown’s advisor on health care and welfare policy, an advisor to U.S. Senator Bob Packwood, and an attorney in private practice focusing on health issues. In the past, she represented the Business Council on Health Care Competition of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, The Children’s Hospital, the Colorado Ob/Gyn Society, the Denver Medical Society, and others before the Congress, Colorado General Assembly and state and federal agencies.

Ms. Brown is the former Chairman of the Board and current Board member of Parent Pathways, Inc. that operates the Florence Crittenton School for Young Mothers and the Young Fathers and Young Families programs. In addition, she has served on the Boards of the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program, the Colorado Special Olympics, and the StEPP Foundation (an environmental grant-making group).

Ms. Brown has her law degree from the University of Denver, a Masters Degree in Legislative Policy from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a Bachelors in Technical Journalism from Colorado State University.