{"id":43954,"date":"2013-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/07\/25\/spotlight-on-new-faculty-thomas-brooks-m-d\/"},"modified":"2013-07-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T05:00:00","slug":"spotlight-on-new-faculty-thomas-brooks-m-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/07\/25\/spotlight-on-new-faculty-thomas-brooks-m-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on new faculty &#8212; Thomas Brooks, M.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Brooks0724.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:0.85em;line-height:150%\">Thomas Brooks, M.D.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE><br \/>\nThomas Brooks, M.D., is among the many new faculty members at UNMC. He joined the department of anesthesiology in the College of Medicine and will be teaching as an associate professor.<\/p>\n<p><b>Name:<\/b> Thomas A. Brooks<\/p>\n<p><b>Hometown:<\/b> New York, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p><b>New title and department at UNMC:<\/b> Associate professor, anesthesiology. <\/p>\n<p><b>Research\/professional interests:<\/b> Pain management<\/p>\n<p><b>Degrees:<\/b> M.D., Creighton University<\/p>\n<p><b>Previous positions:<\/b> Director of the Regional Center for Pain Management, Springfield, Mo.; co-director of The Center for Advanced Pain Management, Springfield, Mo.<\/p>\n<p><b>Memberships:<\/b> American Society of Anesthesiology; American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians<\/p>\n<p><b>Three things you don&#8217;t know about me:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I enjoy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barefoot running.\n<li>Vegetable gardening.\n<li>Sporting clays.\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Brooks joins the department of anesthesiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":37436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","department-anesthesiology","department-college-of-medicine","department-unmc-today-todays-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spotlight on new faculty -- Thomas Brooks, M.D.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Brooks joins the department of anesthesiology.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/07\/25\/spotlight-on-new-faculty-thomas-brooks-m-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spotlight on new faculty -- Thomas Brooks, M.D.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Brooks joins the department of anesthesiology.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/07\/25\/spotlight-on-new-faculty-thomas-brooks-m-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-25T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Icon911.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"288\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Keenan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Keenan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/07\/25\/spotlight-on-new-faculty-thomas-brooks-m-d\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/07\/25\/spotlight-on-new-faculty-thomas-brooks-m-d\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"John Keenan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/59c9598a54f1a531c30cccc1d010ac17\"},\"headline\":\"Spotlight on new faculty &#8212; 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