Webinar Focuses on Saving Lives Through Lung Cancer Screening

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 2, 2017) – The Kentucky LEADS Collaborative (Lung Cancer Education, Awareness, Detection, and Survivorship) will present a webinar on March 8, titled “Lung Cancer Screening: How to Save 712 Kentuckians This Year!” The webinar will focus on low-dose lung cancer screening, including patient eligibility and conducting shared decision making. 

The statewide webinar, scheduled for 12:30 p.m. EST, will feature a presentation by Dr. Anthony Weaver, assistant dean of the Rural Physician Leadership Program at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, who will discuss a host of issues related to low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening in Kentucky. Webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of Weaver and screening policy expert Angela Criswell of Lung Cancer Alliance. Full details are available here. 

The webinar is a CME/CE offering of Kentucky LEADS Collaborative at the University of Louisville. A $100 Amazon gift card will be sent to the first 100 eligible Kentucky providers who participate and complete a registration survey and a post-event survey. Those eligible include practicing primary care providers, cardiologists, pulmonologists and/or lung cancer screening navigators. To register, visit http://www.cvent.com/d/t5q7b2.

The Kentucky LEADS Collaborative is a heavily community-engaged effort forged by the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, the Kentucky Cancer Consortium and the Lung Cancer Alliance, and funded by a generous grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. This collaborative promotes lung cancer survivorship in Kentucky via a broad array of partnerships across the Commonwealth, united by the mission to improve lung cancer care in Kentucky. The Kentucky LEADS Collaborative addresses lung cancer through a three-pronged approach that includes provider education, survivorship care, and prevention and early detection.

For more information, email KYLeads@Louisville.edu or call (502) 852-6318.