Crystal completed her undergraduate studies at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) with Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology with biopsychology concentration in 2002. During her studies Crystal was active in research and had received Howard Hughes Fellowship for research and multiple honors for academic excellence. She graduated college Magna Cum Laude.
Dr. Brown attended medical school at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and received her Doctorate degree of Medicine in 2006 after which continued her post-graduate residency training in pediatrics at University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD.
Dr. Brown has been practicing pediatrics in southern Maryland since 2009.