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Douglas E. Wood

Douglas E. Wood

Cardiothoracic Surgery
Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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Dr. Wood leads the multi-disciplinary thoracic oncology team at the University of Washington and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, who are involved in a wide variety of clinical trials for lung and esophageal cancer. He holds the UW Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research and is the author of over 200 articles and book chapters.

Dr. Wood developed one of the early programs in lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) for severe emphysema, initiating the program at UW in 1994. He was a major participant in the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT) for which he was a co–principal investigator and wrote the surgical protocols for Medicare and the National Institutes of Health. The Agency for Health Research and Quality also sponsored a cost-effectiveness analysis of LVRS within the treatment trial, the largest cost-effectiveness study ever performed in a clinical study. He was the primary NETT clinician involved in the cost-effectiveness study; he subsequently worked directly with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials in developing the national coverage determinations for LVRS and the site selection criteria.
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