Brian Mason, MD

Title: Medical Director, Lecturer - Physician Assistant Science
E-mail: [email protected]

Educational Background:
M.D., Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
M.S., Biological Sciences, Stanford University
B.S., Human Biology and Medical Microbiology

Dr. Mason graduated from Stanford University with honors having completed both undergraduate and master’s degrees. He went on to complete medical school and his Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. During that time, he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Returning to California, he attended UCLA where he completed a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine.

Teaching Interests: 
After completing his fellowship, Dr. Mason accepted a position in Michigan at Wayne State University under Chairman David Cotton, M.D. While at Wayne State he completed a second fellowship in Critical Care Obstetrics and became an associate professor.

Dr. Mason is currently working as a perinatologist at Ascension St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit. He holds appointments as a clinical professor at St. George’s University, an associate clinical professor at Wayne State University, and an assistant clinical professor at Michigan State University. He is part of the volunteer faculty at Millennium Medical School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He served for many years as a preceptor with the Wayne State University Physician Assistants program, receiving multiple preceptor of the year awards. He is deeply committed to helping create a world-class physician assistant program at Oakland University.

Oakland University has applied for Accreditation - Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). Oakland University anticipates matriculating its first class in October 2023, pending achieving Accreditation - Provisional status at the June 2023 ARC-PA meeting. Accreditation - Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding accreditation-provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students.