NCAD West Champion: Lesley Brooks, MD

An advocate for breaking down systemic inequities and a guiding force in the growth of addiction treatment services in Colorado, Lesley Brooks, MD, chief of addiction medicine for SummitStone Health Partners, has earned the distinction of NCAD Champion for 2021.

“In this country right now, we are having an important conversation about structural inequities and how we have structured opportunities for certain communities to achieve the outcomes that we are getting,” Brooks says. “Nowhere are those inequities larger than at the intersection of race, mental health and substance use. I could not be more excited to be working in this space.”