Meet Dr. Leah Backhus. Talented thoracic surgeon and lung cancer researcher at Stanford and the VA Palo Alto. Also committed to increasing lung cancer screening.

She calls her mentors her brain trust.

On today's episode, meet Dr. Leah Backhus. Dr. Backhus trained in general surgery at the University of Southern California (USC) and cardiothoracic surgery at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She practices at Stanford Hospital and is Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the VA Palo Alto. She is also Co-Director of the Thoracic Surgery Clinical Research Program, and has grant funding through the Veterans Affairs Administration and NIH. Her current research interests are in imaging surveillance following treatment for lung cancer and cancer survivorship.