Prescott Woodruff, MD
Research program includes clinical and basic science approaches to study the effects of cigarette smoke on lung inflammation. He is also the Principal Investigator on the NIH-funded Spiromics Project and a Co-investigator on the COPD Clinical Research Network. Dr. Woodruff received his B.A, from Wesleyan University in 1989, received his M.D. degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1993, and completed Internal Medicine residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After residency training, he obtained research training as a Research Fellow in the Channing Laboratory, Division of Respiratory Epidemiology, at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and pursued graduate studies leading to a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1998. He undertook fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine here at UCSF beginning in 1998 and joined the UCSF faculty in 2002. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine and is an investigator in the Airway Clinical Research Center as well as the General Clinical Research Center. Please refer to my website for more information: http://woodrufflab.ucsf.edu/