Steven Brooks
Steven Brooks, MD, FACS
email: steven.brooks@ttuhsc.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery; Trauma and Burns, Surgical Critical Care,
Acute Care Surgery
Surgical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Director, Geriatric Trauma Services, Geriatric Trauma Unit (GTU)
Deputy Medical Director, Trauma Service Area B (TSA-B)
Patient Appointments:
Surgery Clinic : 806-743-2373
Clinic Location:
Surgery Clinic: Texas Tech Physicians Pavilion, 4th floor
Biography:
Steven Brooks, MD, FACS, 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.” After returning to Texas Tech University Dr. Brooks received the “2016 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 assuming 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 an Associate Professor of Surgery and the Trauma Medical Director at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas. He is also the Director of the Geriatric Trauma Unit and Surgical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Dr. Brooks is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and the International College of Surgeons (FICS).
Inpatient practice is focused on Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Acute Care Surgery, and Burns at the Level 1 University Medical Center, including management of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections (NSTIs). Outpatient practice includes serving as the principal general surgeon for the John Montford Unit, a Lubbock medical facility in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) state prison system.
Research interests include numerous aspects of trauma and critical care. Recent emphasis includes rib fracture management, thoracic trauma, and as Director of the Geriatric Trauma Unit, dedication to improved care of multiply injured elderly trauma patients. Additionally, Dr. Brooks has focused on outreach as a leader in trauma education for hospitals in the West Texas and Eastern New Mexico region. He is also devoted to system improvements within the residency program, promoting education and research regarding documentation, acuity, and billing. He also drives system improvements within the University Medical Center as a member of numerous committees devoted to evidence-based best practices in antibiotic stewardship, sepsis management, and aspects of critical care. He is the surgical representative for the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP).
Education/Certification:
Fellowship:
Acute Care Surgery (Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Emergency General Surgery), Vanderbilt University 2011 – 2013
Residency:
General Surgery Resident (PGY-1 Preliminary), Providence Hospital, Detroit, MI, 2006
Texas Tech University Medical Center, Lubbock, TX, 2011
Medical School:
American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Coral Gables, FL, 2005
Certification:
Tennessee State Medical Board Licensure
Texas State Medical Board Licensure
Advanced Trauma Operative Management (A.T.O.M.)
Advanced Trauma Life Support (A.T.L.S.) Instructor
Fundamental Critical Care Support (F.C.C.S.) Instructor
Advanced Burn Life Support (A.B.L.S.)
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (A.C.L.S.)
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (P.A.L.S.)
Fundamentals in Laparoscopic Surgery (F.L.S.)
Basic Life Support (B.L.S.)
Research:
Research interests include but are not exclusive to; surgical infections, Geriatric Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, thoracic trauma, and evidence-based sedation and analgesia practice in critical care.
Dr. Brooks is presently co-writing a chapter on Geriatric Trauma for the next Trauma Issue of Surgical Clinics of North America.
In The News:
Lubbock Avalanche Journal. Lubbock, TX. February 7th, 2016. More
Health Column for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, December 2013. More
Promotion on Healthwise with Karin McKay, KCBD News Channel 11 (Lubbock, TX), February, 2015.
Promotional Radio Interview. Inside HSC with Charles “Chuck” Luck, KTTZ-TV/FM Lubbock and KNCH-FM San Angelo, Feb 2015.
Trauma System News and Program Report,. Healthwise with Karin McKay, KCBD News Channel 11 (Lubbock, TX), January, 2015. More
Trauma System News and Program Report,. Healthwise with Karin McKay, KCBD News Channel 11 (Lubbock, TX), May 2014.
Trauma System News and Program Report,. Healthwise with Karin McKay, KCBD News Channel 11 (Lubbock, TX), May 2014.
Healthwise with Karin McKay, KCBD News Channel 11 (Lubbock, TX), February 2014. More
Healthwise with Karin McKay, KCBD News Channel 11 (Lubbock, TX), December 2013. More
Health Column for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, December 2013. More
Recent Publications:
Brooks SE. Pneumopericardium Resulting From Blunt Thoracic Trauma. Cureus. 2020;12(11):e11625.
Brooks SE. Atraumatic spontaneous hemorrhagic cholecystitis. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings . 2020;34(1):107-108.
Brooks SE. Gangrenous appendicitis contained within a Spigelian hernia. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 2020;34(1):104-106.
Brooks SE. Utilization of Sepsis Advisor Software Clinical EMR Tool Reduces Mortality in High-Risk Septic Patients. EC Clinical & Medical Case Reports . 2020;4(1):01-07.
Mukherjee K, Brooks SE, Barraco RD, Como JJ, Hwang F, Robinson BR, Crandall ML. Elderly Adults with Isolated Hip Fractures – Orthogeriatric Care vs. Standard Care: A Practice Management Guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Journal for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery . 2020;88(2):266-278.
Choi JH, Luo-Owen X, Brooks SE, Turay D, O'Bosky KR, Mukherjee K. Sedation and Paralytic Use in Open Abdomen Patients - Results from the EAST SLEEP Survey. PubMed. 2019;166(6):1111-1116.
Mukherjee K, Burruss SK, Brooks SE, May AK. Managing Infectious Disease in the Critically Ill Elderly Patient. Current Geriatric Reports. 2019;(8):180-193.
Brooks SE, Burruss SK, Mukherjee K. Suicide in the Elderly: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Prevention. . Clinical Geriatric Medicine. 2019;35(1):133-145.
Regner JL, Shaver CN, Frazee R, Brooks SE. Determining the impact of culture on venous thromboembolism prevention in trauma patients: A Southwestern Surgical Congress Multicenter Trial. Am J Surg. 2018;.
Brooks SE. Wound 3: Ulcers--Identification, Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention. 2017.
Dr. Brooks is presently co-writing a chapter on Geriatric Trauma for the next Trauma Issue of Surgical Clinics of North America.
Determining the Impact of Cluture on Venous Thromboembolism Prevention in Trauma Patients: A Southwestern Surgical Congress Multicenter Trial Southwestern Surgical Congress (SWSC), Napa, CA; April 2018.
Making the Golden 10 Minutes a Reality: Development of a "Fly-By" Protocol at a Level 1 Trauma Center Southwestern Surgical Congress (SWSC), Napa, CA; April 2018.
Management of Abdominal Cerebrospinal Pseudocyst in a Hostile Abdomen North Texas
American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX; February 2018.
Rural Trauma Response to Agricultural Machine Injury: Taking the Operating Room to
the Patient North Texas American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX; February 2018.
Use of "Sepsis Advisor Tool" Improves Mortality in High-Acuity Septic Patients North Texas American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX; February 2018.
Hassan Ahmed MD, Benjamin Hirsch MD, Steven E. Brooks, MD. Left Atrial Appendage Rupture Due to Blunt Trauma. Poster presentation at the (North Texas) American College of Surgeons 55th Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. February, 2016.
Milad Mohammadi MD, Natalie Kashefi MSIV, Jonathan Nathan MD, Sarah Ahmad MD, Ari Halldorsson MD, Steven E. Brooks, MD. Rib Plating of Traumatic Rib Fractures: Patient Selection, Operative Planning and Technique. Poster presentation at the American College of Surgeons (North Texas) Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. February, 2015.
Jesse Flores MD, Jonathan Nathan MD, Adam Purtell MD, Dixon Santana MD, Steven E. Brooks, MD. Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding from Jejunal Diverticulosis: Angiographic Localization and Resection. Poster presentation at the American College of Surgeons (North Texas) Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. February, 2015.
Steven E. Brooks, MD, Kaushik Mukherjee MD MSCI, Oliver L. Gunter MD MPH FACS, Oscar D. Guillamondegui MD FACS, Richard S. Miller MD FACS, Addison K. May MD FACS. University Healthsystem Consortium Outperforms TRISS in the Geriatric Trauma Population. Poster presentation for American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery annual meeting in San Francisco, CA. September, 2013.
Kaushik Mukherjee MD MSCI, Kendell J. Sowards MD, Steven E. Brooks, MD, Patrick R. Norris PhD, Addison K. May MD FACS FCCM. Insulin Resistance Increases Before Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Glucose-Controlled Trauma Patients. Oral presentation at Surgical Infection Society annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV. April 2013.
Steven E. Brooks, MD, Erin Woller, MD, Benjamin Hirsch, MD, Thomas McGill, MD, Catherine A. Musemeche, MD. Trichobezoar Presenting as Gastric Obstruction: A Case of Rapunzel Syndrome. Poster presentation at the American College of Surgeons (North Texas) Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. February, 2011.
Steven E. Brooks, MD, Mark Markarian, MD, Benjamin Hirsch, MD, Ari Halldorsson, MD. Traumatic Craniofacial Osteotomies. Poster presentation at the American College of Surgeons (North Texas) Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. February, 2011.
Benjamin Hirsch, MD, Steven E. Brooks, MD, Sammuel Campbell, MD. Mesenteric Ischemia Resulting From Celiomesenteric Trunk Stenosis: A Case Study. Poster presentation at the American College of Surgeons (North Texas) Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. February, 2011.
Robert S. Marks, MD, Steven E. Brooks, MD, Sharmila Dissanaike, MD, John B. Carter, MD. EKG Monitoring Used To Detect Intraoperative Entrapment of the Ilioinguinal Nerve during Femoral Hernia Repair. Poster presentation at the Gulf Atlantic Anesthesia Residents’ Research Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. May, 2010.
Steven E. Brooks, MD, S. Dissanaike, MD, A. Halldorsson, MD. Traumatic Lung Herniation: A Case Study. Poster presentation at the American College of Surgeons (North Texas) Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. February, 2010.
Steven E. Brooks, MD, A. Halldorsson, MD, S. Dissanaike, MD. Use of BioGlue in the Treatment of a Rectovaginal Fistula: A Case Study. Poster presentation at the American College of Surgeons (North Texas) Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. February, 2010.
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