William James Brooks DO
Board Certified: Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
Educator
Throughout his career he has mentored many osteopathic and allopathic medical students and postgraduate physicians—locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally—both in his private clinics, in continuing education settings ranging from one-hour lectures to several-day seminars, and while employed at colleges of medicine in clinics, lectures, and labs. Physical/occupational therapists have also been students. (Please see his Curriculum Vitae for details.)
Reciprocally, he persistently strives to deepen and broaden his medical knowledge in general along with his specialty expertise.
A major goal for the remainder of his career is to intensely train physicians as well as physical/occupational therapists in the Functional Pathology of the Musculoskeletal System paradigm.
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He has developed a Continuing Medical Education seminar designed to train primary care providers: Introduction to the Functional Pathology of the Musculoskeletal System (7 days: 3 & 1/2 days over 2 weekends separated by several weeks)
Grand Rounds
Dr. Brooks has presented Grand Rounds for the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine - Division of Rheumatology on several occasions. See his CV for details. Below is a link to the presentation given in December of 2016.
Journal Club Presentation
Dr. Brooks presented to the DO-Touch.net practice based research network of the Andrew Taylor Still Research Institute (ATSRI) a journal club on the topic of cervical manipulation and stroke.