{{short description|American thoracic surgeon}} <!--- Don't mess with this line! ---><!--- Write your article below this line ---> '''Adam Brook''' is an American thoracic surgeon who is a surgical attending at St. Joseph's Medical Center in New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=Finding a Board Certified Thoracic Surgeon|url=https://abts.org/sections/SurgeonSearch/index.aspx|website=www.abts.org|publisher=American Board of Thoracic Surgery}}</ref>
== Biography == Dr. Brook received the A.B. degree in biology from Harvard University and the M.D. from Harvard Medical School.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brook|first1=Adam|title=E2F is required for G1 S progression of proliferating cells and normal morphology and survival of post-mitotic, differentiating cells|date=1996|publisher=Harvard University|location=Cambridge|pages=1–57|url=http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/007789010/catalog}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Adam Brook CTSNet|url=http://www.ctsnet.org/home/abrook|website=www.ctsnet.org|publisher=The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network}}</ref> He also received the Ph.D. in genetics from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brook|first1=Adam|title=E2F functions and pathways|date=1998|publisher=Harvard University|location=Cambridge|pages=1–124|url=http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008100445/catalog}}</ref> Brook completed his doctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Nicholas Dyson of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. Brook subsequently completed thoracic surgical training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and then served as Specialist Registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Barts Health NHS Trust in London, under Mr. Alan Wood.<ref>{{cite web|title=Adam Brook | LinkedIn|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pub/adam-brook/b2/9a8/ba5|website=LinkedIn|accessdate=13 April 2015}}</ref> Brook is currently an attending thoracic surgeon at St. Joseph's Medical Center and the Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center in New York.
== Academic work == Dr. Brook is a specialist in the treatment of lung cancer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Adam Brook, M.D., Ph.D., Thoracic Surgeon|url=http://www.adambrook.com/|website=www.adambrook.com|publisher=Adam Brook, M.D., Ph.D.}}</ref> His research has focused on molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and on the connections between the cell cycle and development. Brook showed that the cell cycle transcription factor E2F was required to activate differentiation in mammalian<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Brook|first1=A|last2=Xie|first2=J|last3=Du|first3=W|last4=Dyson|first4=N|title=Requirements for dE2F function in proliferating cells and in post-mitotic differentiating mammalian cells.|journal=EMBO J.|date=1996|volume=15|issue=14|pages=3676–83|doi=10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00737.x|pmid=8670871|pmc=452016}}</ref> and Drosophila post-mitotic cells.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Boulton|first1=S|last2=Brook|first2=A|last3=Staehling-Hampton|first3=K|last4=Heitzler|first4=P|last5=Dyson|first5=N|title=A role for Ebi in neuronal cell cycle control.|journal=EMBO J.|date=2000|volume=19|issue=20|pages=5376–86|pmid=11032805|doi=10.1093/emboj/19.20.5376|pmc=314025}}</ref>
Dr. Brook has also conducted epidemiologic research demonstrating the causative inter-relationships between cigarette smoking, pulmonary disease and poverty.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Brook|first1=A|last2=Zhang|first2=C|title=The role of personal attributes in the genesis and progression of lung disease and cigarette smoking.|journal=Am J Public Health|date=2013|volume=103|issue=5|pages=931–7|doi=10.2105/AJPH.2012.300748|pmid=22994182|pmc=3530664}}</ref>
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