Save the date for the 2025 Rescue Lung Society Conference – OCTOBER 24 & 25, HYATT REGENCY BOSTON HARBOR AND VIRTUALLY
Registration opens in June
Rescue Lung Society 2025 Conference
Dates: Oct 24-25, 2025
Location: Boston Harbor Hyatt
Theme: Early Lung Cancer Detection: Clinical & Public Health Practice and Research
Agenda
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
6pm – 8pm – Patient Navigator Workshop (Limited attendance – separate registration)
Issues in CT Lung Screening Patient Navigation
Moderator: Annie Lally, Rush University Medical Center
Panel: Shawn Regis, Rescue Lung Society; Jody Steinhardt, Gean Brown, Smilow Cancer Hospital; Sabrina Moffat, Advocate Aurora Health
Discussion Topics
- Determining eligibility, shared decision making, ordering scans, CPT codes, prior authorization
- Coverage for follow-up scans
- Coverage for quit more than 15 years ago
- Follow-up – adherence to annual scans
- Access and disparities
Friday October 24, 2025
8:00am – 8:15am – Welcome – Jacob Sands, Dana Farber Cancer Center, Rescue Lung Society
8:15am – 10:40am – CT Lung Screening Global Challenges – Moderator: Rudolf Huber, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
- Overview of CT lung screening around the world
Helena Wilcox, Lung Policy Action Network
Pro Con Discussion: Should CTLS be encouraged in low resource countries with major competing health priorities?
Claudia Henschke, Icahn School of Medicine – Yes / Kevin ten Haaf, Erasmus – No
Panel Discussion: Addressing Challenges in CT Lung Screening in Different Populations
- Hungary – Anna Kerper-Fronius, National Korányi Institute of Pulmonology
- Croatia – Miroslav Samarzija, University Hospital Zagreb
- Japan – Hidehito Horinouchi, National Cancer Center Hospital
- Brazil – Ricardo Sales, SENAI CIMATEC University Center, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
- South Korea – Yeon Wook Kim, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
- United Kingdom – Dave Baldwin, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
10:40am – 11:00am – Break
11:00am – 1:00pm – Research, Clinical Trial, and Study Updates – Moderator: Antoni Rosell, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol
- A randomized phase III trial of a perioperative physical activity intervention in older adults with lung cancer and their family caregivers
Dan Raz, City of Hope
- A randomized controlled trial of a digital lung health intervention to facilitate smoking cessation and lung cancer screening
Mary E. Cooley, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Assessing lung cancer screening eligibility in Boston Lung Cancer Study
Alexandra Potter, American Lung Cancer Screening Initiative
- Prognostic importance of extensive coronary calcium on lung cancer screening chest computed tomography
Gary Small, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
- Long-term outcomes of lung cancer screening in males and females and predictive value of CAC
Ugo Pastorini, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
- Lung cancer vaccine trials
Mary Reid, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
1:00pm – 2:00pm – Lunch and Visit Exhibitors
2:00pm – 5:00pm – Expanding eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening – Moderator: Matt Smeltzer, University of Memphis School of Public Health, Rescue Lung Society
- Identifying those who never smoked who are at high risk to be eligible for lung cancer screening
Martin Tammemägi, Brock University
- How to measure and assess air pollution exposures for lung cancer risk assessment
Mike Brauer, University of British Columbia
- How to measure and assess occupational exposure for lung cancer risk
John Dement, Duke University
- Getting USPSTF to update guidelines to eliminate time since quit
Anita McGlothlin, GO2 Foundation
Panel Discussion
3:30pm – 4:00pm – Break
Pro Con Discussion: Should there be different eligibility criteria for men and women?
Jody Steinhardt – no / Mary Pasquinelli, University of Illinois – yes
Pro Con Discussion: Should race be used as a predictor variable in risk prediction models?
Melinda Aldrich, Vanderbilt University – No / Iakovos Toumazis, MD Anderson – Yes
5:00pm – 6:30pm – Reception with posters and visit exhibitors
6:30pm – 8:30pm – Dinner
Saturday October 25, 2025
7:00am – Breakfast and Registration
8:00am – Brady McKee Excellence in Lung Cancer Screening Award – Andrea McKee, Radiation Oncology Associates, PA / Rescue Lung Society
8:30am – 1:15pm – Hot Topics in CT Lung Screening in Clinical & Public Health Practice – Moderator: Ella Kazerooni, University of Michigan
- Primary Care CT Lung Screening Networks to Improve Screening Uptake
Mike Gieske, St. Elizabeth Cancer Center, Rescue Lung Society
- Using Community Health Workers for Cancer Screening Community Engagement
Melanie Steeves, MA Department of Public Health and Schioban Torres, MA Department of Public Health (co-presenting)
- Eliminating CT Lung Screening Access Barriers
Joelle Fathi, University of Washington, GO2 Foundation
- Shared Decision-Making Tips for PCP’s
Pierre Onda, The White Ribbon Project
- Patient Navigation Best Practices for Increasing Adherence
Amy McClary, Northern Light
- Incorporating Smoking Cessation – Best Practices
Henry Marshall, University of Queensland, Australia
- Radiologist training
Eric Hart, NorthWestern Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Rescue Lung Society
- Tracking CTLS Program Quality Indicators
Shawn Regis, Rescue Lung Society
- Break
- CT Lung Screening Programs and IPN Clinic Program Structure Approaches and Implementation and Management Tools
Carey Thomson, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Harvard Medical School, Rescue Lung Society
- Panel Discussion
Pro Con Discussion: Should Screening Interval be determined by preceding scan result?
Stephan Lam, British Columbia Cancer Center – Yes/David Yankelewitz, Icahn School of Medicine – No
Pro Con Discussion: Is volumetric measurement superior and necessary versus mean diameter for CT lung screening results reporting and management?
Matthijs Oudkerk, University of Groningen – yes / Jalil Afnan, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center – No
1:00pm – 2:15pm – Lunch and visit exhibitors
2:15pm – 4:15pm – New Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and MCED– Moderator: Chris Lindsell, Duke University
- AI and Machine Learning in the field of early lung cancer detection – What you need to understand to appreciate the potential
Colin Jacobs, Radboud University Medical Center
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Lung Cancer Screening
Scott Adams, Royal University Hospital
- Deep Learning for Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy Risk Prediction
Colin Jacobs, Radboud University Medical Center
- Multicancer early detection testing
TBA
4:15pm – Close out and final thoughts – Jacob Sands, Dana Farber Cancer Center, Rescue Lung Society