Dr. Ari D. Brooks specializes in the management and surgical treatment of Breast cancer, Melanoma, Sarcoma, Thyroid, Parathyroid and other cancers. Dr. Brooks is adept at minimally-invasive surgeries.

Dr. Brooks is a six-time repeat winner of Philadelphia Magazine's Top Doctors award, as well as America's Top Doctors. Dr. Brooks has an active voice in outreach programs for education and prevention of breast cancer in the greater Philadelphia area. He is involved in the Susan G. Komen Philadelphia breast cancer program. He has co-authored over 70 research papers and is as present in the research lab as in the operating room.

Dr. Brooks is the Director of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery and Director of the Integrated Breast Center at Pennsylvania Hospital. He sees patients at Penn Medicine Washington Square, 800 Walnut street, 20th floor, Philadelphia, PA as well as at Penn Medicine Woodbury, 1006 Mantua Pike, Woodbury Heights, NJ.

Dr. Brooks graduated from the Boston University/Hahnemann University Hospital six-year medical program and went on to residency and fellowships at NYU Langone Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He completed his fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and and spent twelve years working at Hahnemann University Hospital, where he built up the surgical oncology division and built the surgical research labs. He moved to Pennsylvania Hospital in the University of Pennsylvania Health System in September of 2013.