2024 Summit agenda

An informal team meet-up and opportunity to get to know one another before Saturday’s formal program.

8:30–8:35 — Welcome from Dr. Yang.

8:35–8:45 — Introduction to the Plus One Campaign and Lung Cancer Research Foundation from Stacey Bowers, Senior Director of Community Engagement at LCRF.

Dr. Lecia Sequist — Lung Cancer Screening Overview and Potential Impact (Keynote)

Dr. Narjust Florez — Lung Cancer in Young Patients

Dr. Erica Warner — Epidemiological Perspective of Lung Cancer Screening

Small-group Q&A about specialties and daily clinical work.

Advisors: Dr. Erica Warner (epidemiologist), Dr. Lecia Sequist (thoracic medical oncologist), and Dr. Colleen Keyes (pulmonologist).

Experiences navigating a lung cancer diagnosis within a family.

Speakers: Lauren Coye, Leah Hirschorn, Rosemary Conway, and Joe Nogueira.

Faculty-led small groups covered benefits and risks of screening, shared decision-making, reading CT scans, Lung-RADS and recommended follow-up, incidental findings, and integrating screening with smoking cessation.

A walkthrough of campaign data collection and metrics, role-play of a Plus One conversation, and Q&A about the campaign. Stacey Bowers demonstrated how to order campaign educational materials.

Teams attended local events to talk with community members about lung cancer screening.

Listed 9:00–11:00 AM outreach sites: YMCA Greater Boston Area (316 Huntington Avenue); Sherill House (135 S Huntington Avenue); Ruggles Assisted Living Center (25 Ruggles Street); YMCA Roxbury Center (285 Martin Luther King Boulevard); and Boston Common.

Group photograph at Boston Common.

Discussion of outreach experiences and opportunities to get involved in ALCSI initiatives.

Informal MGH tours and a surgical skills lab following the formal program.