Adam Brook is an American thoracic surgeon who is a surgical attending at St. Joseph's Medical Center in New York.

Biography

Dr. Brook received the A.B. degree in biology from

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and the M.D. from

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. He also received the Ph.D. in genetics from the

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. Brook completed his doctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Nicholas Dyson of the

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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

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in London, under Mr. Alan Wood. Brook is currently an attending thoracic surgeon at St. Joseph's Medical Center and the Northport

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Medical Center in

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Academic work

Dr. Brook is a specialist in the treatment of

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung. Lung cancer is caused by genetic damage to the DNA of cells in the airways, often caused by cigarette smoking or inhaling damaging chemicals. Damaged ...

. 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 and

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post-mitotic cells. Dr. Brook has also conducted epidemiologic research demonstrating the causative inter-relationships between cigarette smoking, pulmonary disease and poverty.

References

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