Brooke M. Crawford, M.D., MBA

Dr. Crawford is a small-town farm girl at heart, born and raised on 60 acres in Southern Oregon. She loves being outdoors, and in her downtime, she’s often paddleboarding, fishing, or snorkeling around South Florida (since there are no mountains to hike!). She played racquetball throughout her youth and won several world championships in singles and doubles, was captain of the USA junior national team when they won the United States Olympic Committee team of the month at the Junior World Championship Tournament. She also coached high school racquetball teams while she was in medical school, although now days she only hits the courts when challenged.

Growing up on the west coast of the country, not Florida – Dr. Crawford went to Santa Clara University for college, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, and attended medical school at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, where her orthopaedic oncology rotation sealed her specialty choice. She then moved to St. Louis for residency and a junior trauma fellowship in trauma at Saint Louis University Hospital. Her interest in oncology led her to fellowship with Dr. Fran Hornicek, current Miller School of Medicine Chairman of Orthopaedics, at Harvard Medical School through Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. She came back to the West Coast for her first job at City of Hope, about 6 months before Dr. Hornicek became chairman of UCLA Orthopaedics. A few years later, she joined him at UCLA, and when he moved back to Miller School of Medicine, where he did his residency and started his orthopaedic career, he recruited her with him.

Dr. Crawford is a sucker for animals, and has 3 rescues – a blue heeler, a kelpie, and a stray cat. She recently planted some lychee, mango and avocado trees on her property, and loves living in South Florida.

Dr. Crawford currently serves as Division Chief of Orthopaedic Oncology and has since obtained the title of Associate Program Director for the residency program. Her research has taken off with the support of the orthopaedic department and Sylvester Cancer center, and she is setting up a laboratory that will use photoacoustic imaging to examine solid bone (especially tumors!), was awarded her first grant correlating tumoral biomarkers with risk of fracture for skeletal metastases in prostate and breast cancer patients, and has several other projects going. She also received her MBA in Executive Healthcare from the University of Miami in 2024.

Cancer of any kind is a scary, stressful, never-ending process, and Dr. Crawford is here because she believes this team at Miami is the strongest, most compassionate, and most capable of dealing with musculoskeletal tumors than any place she has observed. She and her partners will be an extended support system for patients, and are honored to be a part of their care.