Brooke Elise Hobbs, MD
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Brooke hails from Northern California and is thrilled to be returning for residency! Growing up with foster siblings, she developed a passion for trauma-informed care from an early age. Prior to medical school, Brooke attended Westmont College in Santa Barbara as a Biology major. She served as a Resident Assistant for two years, which solidified her interest in the transition from childhood to adulthood and subsequently, adolescent medicine. After college, she worked at Conflict Solutions Center, a non-profit focused on restorative justice, as well as in the Emergency Department.
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Brooke attended the University of Miami for medical school where she was involved in the Department of Community Service (DOCS), a student-run system of free health clinics. She volunteered at the Primary Care clinic and the Women’s Health clinic at the Center for Haitian Studies and the IDEA clinic, the syringe exchange program. She was also a patient advocate for the Reproductive Health Advocates, a leader of MedicOUT, her medical school’s LGBTQ+ alliance and educational advocacy group, and a co-founder of Miami Med COVID Help, a student-run non-profit that disseminated thousands of masks throughout Florida from 2020-2021. Her professional interests include obstetrics, birth justice, rural medicine, health equity, gender-affirming care, disability advocacy, and refugee, immigrant, and migrant health. After work, Brooke can be found hiking, composing music, playing volleyball, and using too many emojis in her texts!