David Madtes, MD

Dr. David Madtes is a pulmonary and critical care specialist who treats and studies pulmonary problems among cancer patients. He is the director of the Lung Cancer Early Detection & Prevention Clinic at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The clinic is one of only a few in the nation that assesses people’s risk of lung cancer and expedites evaluations of suspicious findings using state-of-the-art diagnostic techniques. Dr. Madtes also founded and directs a joint Fred Hutch/UW Medicine lung cancer screening program designed to detect lung cancer at its earliest stages when the chance of cure is highest. A primary goal of his research is to identify and address the barriers to lung cancer screening, especially in underserved populations. A second research focus is the application of artificial intelligence to improve the identification of early lung cancer on screening CT scans. A third goal of his research program is to identify and characterize noninfectious pulmonary complications of blood stem cell transplantation.