Professor and Clinician Scientist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario,
Dr. Brooks is a Professor and Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His research focuses on resuscitation science involving the implementation of community strategies to improve the early phase of response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He studies mobile device apps to support bystander response, community volunteer response programs to enhance the organized 9-1-1 response, and video review of real resuscitation events in the emergency department to improve quality.
Dr. Brooks is a member of the Resuscitation Advisory Committee of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and a Past Chair of the Science Subcommittee within the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee. He has been involved in the development of international emergency cardiovascular care guidelines for the last 20 years. Dr. Brooks is Chief Medical Officer for Rapid Response Revival, an Australian company that manufactures the CellAED (www.cellaed.io). CellAED is the world’s first miniaturized, single-use automated external defibrillator designed for “personal access defibrillation” and household deployment.