Dr. Durado Brooks is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the Screening Business Unit of Exact Sciences Corporation, a position he assumed in October 2020.
Prior to joining Exact Sciences Dr. Brooks spent 20 years with the American Cancer Society’s national headquarters. During his tenure at ACS Dr. Brooks served in a variety of positions with steadily increasing areas of responsibility, culminating in the role of Vice President of Prevention and Early Detection. Throughout his ACS career Dr. Brooks worked to increase access to high quality prevention and screening and to decrease cancer-related disparities through the design, implementation and evaluation of cancer prevention and early detection programs at the national, state and local levels.
A graduate of the Ohio State University and the Wright State University School of Medi-cine, Dr. Brooks completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at Wright State’s Affiliated Hospitals in Dayton, Ohio, and a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He provided primary care and served as medical director for community health centers in Dayton and in the Community Oriented Primary Care Program at Parkland Memorial Hospital in his current hometown of Dallas, Texas. His experience in these settings led to expertise in areas including disease prevention and health promotion, disparities in healthcare and outcomes, cultural competency of health care providers and systems, and the impact of managed care on vulnerable populations.
Dr. Brooks completed the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and earned an MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1999, and joined ACS after a one-year Senior Health Policy Internship in the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
He was a 2015 recipient of the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Laurel Award for National Leadership in Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
The opportunity to hold in-depth, candid conversations with high-level policymakers is a unique and valuable aspect of the fellowship. In addition, the rapidly growing network of former fellows, many of whom have moved into important roles in the pubic and private sectors, has already proven to be a tremendous resource.