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Prescott G. Woodruff, M.D.

Pulmonologist and critical care specialist

Dr. Prescott G. Woodruff specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine. He also conducts research at UCSF's Airway Clinical Research Center and General Clinical Research Center where he studies the mechanisms of inflammation, airway remodeling and airway hyper-responsiveness in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Woodruff earned a medical degree at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. After residency training, he was a research fellow at the Channing Laboratory in Respiratory Epidemiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He also completed a graduate degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCSF, before joining the UCSF medical staff in 2002. He is an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Asthma Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Fifth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0359
Phone: (415) 353-2961

Hours: Thursdays
8:30 – 11:30 a.m.

More about Prescott G. Woodruff

Additional Languages

French

Education

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center 1993

Residencies

Massachusetts General Hospital, 1996

Fellowships

Channing Laboratory of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1998
UCSF Medical Center, Pulmonary Medicine 2002

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Hallstrand TS, Woodruff PG, Holgate ST, Knight DA. Function of the airway epithelium in asthma. J Allergy (Cairo). 2012; 2012:160586.
  2. A combined pulmonary-radiology workshop for visual evaluation of COPD: study design, chest CT findings and concordance with quantitative evaluation. COPD. 2012 Apr; 9(2):151-9.
  3. Casaburi R, Porszasz J, Hecht A, Tiep B, Albert RK, Anthonisen NR, Bailey WC, Connett JE, Cooper JA, Criner GJ, Curtis J, Dransfield M, Lazarus SC, Make B, Martinez FJ, McEvoy C, Niewoehner DE, Reilly JJ, Scanlon P, Scharf SM, Sciurba FC, Woodruff P. Influence of Lightweight Ambulatory Oxygen on Oxygen Use and Activity Patterns of COPD Patients Receiving Long-Term Oxygen Therapy. COPD. 2012 Feb; 9(1):3-11.
  4. Albert RK, Connett J, Bailey WC, Casaburi R, Cooper JA, Criner GJ, Curtis JL, Dransfield MT, Han MK, Lazarus SC, Make B, Marchetti N, Martinez FJ, Madinger NE, McEvoy C, Niewoehner DE, Porsasz J, Price CS, Reilly J, Scanlon PD, Sciurba FC, Scharf SM, Washko GR, Woodruff PG, Anthonisen NR. Azithromycin for prevention of exacerbations of COPD. N Engl J Med. 2011 Aug 25; 365(8):689-98.
  5. Gordon ED, Sidhu SS, Wang ZE, Woodruff PG, Yuan S, Solon MC, Conway SJ, Huang X, Locksley RM, Fahy JV. A protective role for periostin and TGF-ß in IgE-mediated allergy and airway hyperresponsiveness. Clin Exp Allergy. 2012 Jan; 42(1):144-55.
  6. Koth LL, Solberg OD, Peng JC, Bhakta NR, Nguyen CP, Woodruff PG. Sarcoidosis blood transcriptome reflects lung inflammation and overlaps with tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011 Nov 15; 184(10):1153-63.
  7. Woodruff PG. Novel outcomes and end points: biomarkers in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease clinical trials. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2011 Aug; 8(4):350-5.
  8. Bhakta NR, Woodruff PG. Human asthma phenotypes: from the clinic, to cytokines, and back again. Immunol Rev. 2011 Jul; 242(1):220-32.
  9. Woodruff PG, Albert RK, Bailey WC, Casaburi R, Connett JE, Cooper JA, Criner GJ, Curtis JL, Dransfield MT, Han MK, Harnden SM, Kim V, Marchetti N, Martinez FJ, McEvoy CE, Niewoehner DE, Reilly JJ, Rice K, Scanlon PD, Scharf SM, Sciurba FC, Washko GR, Lazarus SC. Randomized trial of zileuton for treatment of COPD exacerbations requiring hospitalization. COPD. 2011 Feb; 8(1):21-9.
  10. Choy DF, Modrek B, Abbas AR, Kummerfeld S, Clark HF, Wu LC, Fedorowicz G, Modrusan Z, Fahy JV, Woodruff PG, Arron JR. Gene expression patterns of Th2 inflammation and intercellular communication in asthmatic airways. J Immunol. 2011 Feb 1; 186(3):1861-9.
  11. Innes AL, McGrath KW, Dougherty RH, McCulloch CE, Woodruff PG, Seibold MA, Okamoto KS, Ingmundson KJ, Solon MC, Carrington SD, Fahy JV. The H antigen at epithelial surfaces is associated with susceptibility to asthma exacerbation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011 Jan 15; 183(2):189-94.
  12. Sidhu SS, Yuan S, Innes AL, Kerr S, Woodruff PG, Hou L, Muller SJ, Fahy JV. Roles of epithelial cell-derived periostin in TGF-beta activation, collagen production, and collagen gel elasticity in asthma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Aug 10; 107(32):14170-5.
  13. Dougherty RH, Sidhu SS, Raman K, Solon M, Solberg OD, Caughey GH, Woodruff PG, Fahy JV. Accumulation of intraepithelial mast cells with a unique protease phenotype in T(H)2-high asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 May; 125(5):1046-1053.e8.
  14. Koth LL, Cambier CJ, Ellwanger A, Solon M, Hou L, Lanier LL, Abram CL, Hamerman JA, Woodruff PG. DAP12 is required for macrophage recruitment to the lung in response to cigarette smoke and chemotaxis toward CCL2. J Immunol. 2010 Jun 1; 184(11):6522-8.
  15. Woodruff PG, Wolff M, Hohlfeld JM, Krug N, Dransfield MT, Sutherland ER, Criner GJ, Kim V, Prasse A, Nivens MC, Tetzlaff K, Heilker R, Fahy JV. Safety and efficacy of an inhaled epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor (BIBW 2948 BS) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2010 Mar 1; 181(5):438-45.
  16. Park SW, Verhaeghe C, Nguyenvu LT, Barbeau R, Eisley CJ, Nakagami Y, Huang X, Woodruff PG, Fahy JV, Erle DJ. Distinct roles of FOXA2 and FOXA3 in allergic airway disease and asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Oct 1; 180(7):603-10.
  17. Dransfield MT, Nahm MH, Han MK, Harnden S, Criner GJ, Martinez FJ, Scanlon PD, Woodruff PG, Washko GR, Connett JE, Anthonisen NR, Bailey WC. Superior immune response to protein-conjugate versus free pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Sep 15; 180(6):499-505.
  18. Woodruff PG, Modrek B, Choy DF, Jia G, Abbas AR, Ellwanger A, Koth LL, Arron JR, Fahy JV. T-helper type 2-driven inflammation defines major subphenotypes of asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Sep 1; 180(5):388-95.
  19. Woodruff PG, Ellwanger A, Solon M, Cambier CJ, Pinkerton KE, Koth LL. Alveolar macrophage recruitment and activation by chronic second hand smoke exposure in mice. COPD. 2009 Apr; 6(2):86-94.
  20. Goswami S, Angkasekwinai P, Shan M, Greenlee KJ, Barranco WT, Polikepahad S, Seryshev A, Song LZ, Redding D, Singh B, Sur S, Woodruff P, Dong C, Corry DB, Kheradmand F. Divergent functions for airway epithelial matrix metalloproteinase 7 and retinoic acid in experimental asthma. Nat Immunol. 2009 May; 10(5):496-503.

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