Steven E. Brooks

Steven Brooks, MD, FACS, graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California and detoured from advanced education for five years to play professional football (Tight End and Long-Snapper) 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 and member of the Screen Actors Guild, appearing in several episodes of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Beverly Hills 90210, HBO's Arliss and the movie Space Jam. He also starred in a series of Nike NFL commercials with comedian Jerry Stiller, who played the ghost of Vincent Lombardi. Dr. Brooks inevitably followed his passion to become a doctor and matriculated to medical school in 2001, and completed his general surgery residency in 2011 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