Baptist lung clinic research earns national attention

Baptist’s multidisciplinary lung clinic, led by Dr. Raymond Osarogiagbon and Dr. Todd Robbins, recently earned national recognition for its lung cancer research.

Dr. Robbins received the Clifton Mountain Lectureship Award for the best lung cancer staging paper at the 2015 World Conference on Lung Cancer in Denver in September. The paper, titled “Evolution in the Surgical Care of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Patients in the Mid-South Quality of Surgical Resection (MS-QSR) Cohort,” provided an interim report on progress with a National Institute of Health-funded tri-state (Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee) lung cancer surgical quality improvement project being conducted by the Thoracic Oncology Research Group. Dr. Osarogiagbon is the Principal Investigator on the grant.

The Baptist Cancer Center’s Lung Multidisciplinary Clinic (Lung-MD) team successfully competed for the opportunity to participate in the National Cancer Institute and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (NCI-ASCO) “Teams in Cancer Care Delivery” Project. Nearly 200 teams from major universities and health care institutions from the US, Canada and the United Kingdom applied to participate in the project. The Baptist Cancer Center team was one of 22 selected to participate.The goal of this project is to use team science principles to develop better models of health care delivery, and in this specific case to provide guidelines on how to improve the quality of lung cancer care in the US. The team, led by Dr. Osarogiagbon, includes experts from the Baptist Cancer Center, the University of Memphis School of Public Health, Kaiser Permanente, Harvard Medical School, the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, and Meridian Healthcare System in New Jersey.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has featured the ongoing Baptist Cancer Center Lung MD program on its “Research in Action” website. The focus is on the Baptist Cancer Center projectBuilding a Multidisciplinary Bridge Across the Quality Chasm in Thoracic Oncology,” which is funded by PCORI. Dr. Osarogiagbon, the Principal Investigator of this project, was also invited to be part of the faculty of presenters for PCORI’s inaugural Annual Meeting in early October 2015.

Please see the link below for more information:

Title: Under One Roof: Pulling Specialists Together to Improve Lung Cancer Care

Direct Link: http://www.pcori.org/research-in-action/under-one-roof-pulling-specialists-together-improve-lung-cancer-care