Bryan Nicholas Brooke MD, M.Chir., FRCS (21 February 1915 – 18 September 1998) was a British surgeon and pioneer of surgery for ulcerative colitis.
After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified MRCS in 1939 and graduated MB BChir in 1940 and MChir in 1944 from the University of Cambridge.
He joined in 1947[4] the new professorial surgical unit headed by Alan Stammers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
[5] There, Lionel Hardy, (William) Trevor Cooke, and Clifford Hawkins were keenly interested in testing the newly introduced adherent Koening-Rutzen bag for potential ileostomy patients.
[3] The Birmingham group and a few like minded colleagues were able to show that an ileostomy using the adherent device, combined with staged colectomy and subsequently proctocolectomy, produced outstandingly successful results.