General Practitioners

• Pediatric Care
  A native of Uvalde,  Dr. Brunnemann joined Brown and Associates Medical Laboratories in March 2022 after a long career with Alliance Pathology Consultants.  She received her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University and subsequently graduated with honors from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston (McGovern Medical School) in 1991. After graduation she completed an internship in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School in 1992.  She completed residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the same institution in 1996.  While in training she was actively involved in the House Staff Association including serving two terms as Vice-President from 1994-1996. In 1997 she completed a fellowship in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX.   She joined Alliance Pathology Consultants, Pasadena, TX as an associate and became a Partner in 2002.  She is a diplomate of the American Board of Pathology and is certified and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology.

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Dr. Maria Bernier joined Brown & Associates in 2018. She is a native Houstonian and graduated with honors from the University of Texas, Austin with a degree in Psychology. Dr. Bernier studied Medicine at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.  After earning her M.D., she completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas-Houston medical school in 2002. Dr. Bernier completed her residency in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology at The University of Texas-Houston Medical School with board certification in 2006.  She then completed a Surgical Pathology fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston in 2007, where she served as Chief Fellow. Following fellowship, Dr. Bernier practiced general pathology at a local hospital in Augusta, Georgia and later in Clarksville, Tennessee. In 2011, Dr. Bernier and her family relocated to Virginia Beach, where she worked as a staff pathologist for a practice of Gastroenterologists until 2018. Dr. Bernier is the mother of three beautiful children and is married to Joseph Bernier-Rodriguez, DDS, who is an endodontist with Endodontic Associates in Bellaire, Texas.

Surgeons

• Otolaryngology
  Dr. Gu joined Brown & Associates Medical Laboratories as an Associate in 2005. She received her medical degree at Medical College of Southeast University in Nanjing, China, where she also joined the residency program in the Department of Otolaryngology. Dr. Gu received a Master of Science at the Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. She completed her Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta, Georgia; and completed her pathology and laboratory residencies at Texas Tech University Health Science Center and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT-HSC). She was the Chief Resident at UT-HSC in 2003-2004. She completed a Surgical Pathology Fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology certified in Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology.

Dermatologists

• Dermatology
  Brown Pathology also provides high quality technical surgical processing of tissue at our CAP and CLIA certified laboratory located near the Texas Medical Center. In addition to routine histology, our laboratory also provides a wide array of special stains and over 90 immunohistochemistry stains.  Our laboratory is equipped and staffed to service local histology, dermatology, and research laboratory clients with basic histology cutting, embedding, and frozen sectioning as well as any special stains or IHC needs. We are able to provide our clients with a local, expedited turnaround time compared to the larger, national reference labs.