A breath of fresh air: The science and policy saving lives from America’s deadliest cancer

Winner of the UW 2025 University Faculty Lecture Award, Dr. Douglas Wood is the Henry N. Harkins professor and chair of the UW Department of Surgery. Dr. Wood has spent his career saving the lives of lung cancer patients — individually as a world-renowned thoracic surgeon and en masse as a national leader in the development and expansion of lung cancer screening.