Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNurse Practitioner and Clinical Coordinator, Vanderbilt Lung Screening Program
Dec. 2015Greater Nashville Area, TNClinical Coordinator: I designed and have managed our program from inception in 2015. We have grown the program to include 4 staff members and have screened thousands of patients for lung cancer. Clinically, I perform shared decision making consultations with patients (via telemedicine since 2020) regarding lung cancer screening, provide smoking cessation counseling, communicate results and coordinate care and referrals between radiologists, referring providers, and patients, manage follow-up recommendations, track patients for compliance and to diagnosis. Operationally, I manage the scheduling and billing of lung screening with outpatient imaging site, manage and analyze patient data for clinical, research, and reporting purposes, work with multiple IT departments for improved system-wide documentation, health alerts, to implement lung and breast cancer navigation software (x2), and manage all program data. I manage the marketing plan for provider and patient education and outreach, participate in research and QI projects, abstract and manuscript writing, and collect, manage, and report data to ACR Lung Screening Registry