Dr Robert Brooks Doctor Robert      Dr. Robert Brooks graduated from Tulsa East Central High School in 1963. After completing two years of undergraduate work at the University of Tulsa, he entered Palmer College of Chiropractic, where he graduated in 1970 with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. From 1972 to 1987 he conducted practices in Tulsa and Tahlequah, Oklahoma as Brooks Chiropractic Life Center. Since 1988, his practice, Brooks Spinal Care, is located in Tulsa at the University Club Towers building near Eighteenth Street and Denver. Fifty-four of his patients have become chiropractors, he has trained and coached fifty four interns to prepare them for their own practices and he has personally cared for more than fifteen thousand patients from Oklahoma, forty-seven states and a number of foreign countries.      For contributions to the profession, he has received honorary degrees from Life Chiropractic College and from Sherman College of Chiropractic. He has served his alma mater Palmer College of Chiropractic in many leadership capacities including Visiting Clinical Professor, Philosophy Forum, a special Task Force to investigate the clinical education of a chiropractor, and virtually every office in the Palmer College of Chiropractic International Alumni Association including President and Chair of the Board. He was honored with the coveted Alumnus of the Year in 1992.      Dr. Brooks is a member of Delta Sigma Chi, a Chiropractic professional fraternity. He has served in numerous leadership capacities in the Chiropractic Association of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Chiropractic Research Foundation, the Congress of Chiropractic State Associations and the International Chiropractors Association. He is a director and past president of the National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association (NUCCA.org) and is currently the Chair of the Board of the Upper Cervical Research Foundation (UCRF.org).      As a perpetual student he continues to take classes and seminars, workshops and experiences that are designed to amplify aliveness. He is a member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and has served as a community leader in the Tulsa area. He has facilitated two of the Spirit Link meetings in Tulsa and has served on the board of All Souls Unitarian Church.      He has attended Yoga Journal Conferences, has been on Vision Quests and has been trained as a facilitator, coach and teacher for the Garden Company, whose programs are designed to allow people to free themselves of the emotional burdens of the past and to facilitate personal development and transformation.      His seminar company, “Taking Care of People” teaches Chiropractors and chiropractic students to create non-toxic environments to take care of people always acting in the patient’s best interest. He also teaches classes about profound personal healing and transformation (“Issues in the Tissues”) as a way of healing psychological and psycho-social wounds. His life reflects his personal intent to be a student, a healer and a teacher, with dignity, integrity and grace.