Roger Brooke

Roger Brooke (1878 to 1940) was an American surgeon and officer of the United States Army Medical Corps who reached the rank of brigadier general. Born in Sandy Springs, Maryland, into a Quaker community, he graduated from the University of Maryland Medical School in 1900 and joined the Medical Corps in 1901. After a tour in the Philippines he became a specialist in infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. During the First World War he commanded the Medical Officers Training Camp at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, which prepared tens of thousands of officers and enlisted men, and received the Distinguished Service Medal. He commanded the Station Hospital at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio from 1929 to 1933 and is credited with instituting the first routine chest X-ray in military medicine. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1938 and died in 1940 while commandant of the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks. Brooke Army Medical Center is named after him.