By Joe Kimball
MinnPost
There will be free sunscreen at the State Fair this year — a high-end lotion available from dispensers at all 11 information booths — and credit for the idea goes to Dr. Megan Wood, who pushed the plan as a tribute to her father.
Wood was a second year medical student when her dad, John W. Wood, Jr., a Wayzata attorney, was diagnosed with stage four melanoma. He died six months later, in 2012. He was 65, an active athlete who rode his bicycle 2,000 miles the summer before he died.
Daughter Megan was devastated.
“I want into a mode of vengeance against melanoma,” said Wood, now a resident/intern at Hennepin County Medical Center. “I wanted to do something, to change the world, to make a difference.”
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