Steven Brooks, MD graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California and detoured from advanced education for five years to play professional football in the NFL for the L.A./St. Louis Rams, San Francisco 49’ers, New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins. In the off-season Dr. Brooks was also a professional actor, appearing in several episodes of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Beverly Hills 90210, HBO’s Arliss and the movie Space Jam.

Dr. Brooks inevitably followed his passion to become a doctor and matriculated to AUC School of Medicine in 2001. Dr. Brooks completed his general surgery residency at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, where he was named the Raleigh-Ross Outstanding Resident by the Texas Surgical Society. While chief resident at Texas Tech, he was the recipient of the 2010 American College of Surgeons Resident Award for Exemplary Teaching. Although the American College of Surgeons (ACS) had met annually for the previous 96 years, Dr. Brooks was only the 8th recipient of the award.

He completed two additional years of fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he trained in Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. He received the Vanderbilt University Adult Emergency Department Advocate Award for “representing the highest ideals of patient advocacy and professionalism with patients and Emergency Department Physicians.” In 2016 and again in 2020 he recieved the “South Plains Emergency Medical Service (SPEMS) Physician of the Year” award from the Trauma Area B Regional Advisory Council (B-RAC). Additionally, one year after Dr. Brooks assumed the trauma medical directorship, University Medical Center received the state's highest trauma recognition, the Texas Department of State Health Services Designated Trauma Center Award.

Dr. Brooks is board certified in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, and has returned to Texas Tech University Medical Center in Lubbock, where he is now Associate Professor of Surgery with Tenure, Surgery Vice Chair, Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program Director, and Medical Director of the Trauma Surgical Intensive Care Unit (TSICU).

Dr. Brooks is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), International College of Surgeons (FICS), and Professional Member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).

Languages

Spanish

Interests

Acute care
Burns
Critical care
Evidence-based practice
Pediatric trauma
Surgery

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Driven by a Mission

Steven Edward Brooks

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