Kathryn Taylor
Georgetown University, DC·Public Health & Epidemiology
Lung cancer screening finds tumors early, but it saves even more lives when people who smoke also get help quitting. Guidelines say screening patients who smoke should be offered quit-smoking treatment, yet many never receive it.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Psychology
- Topics
smoking cessation
tobacco treatment
lung cancer screening
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Mar 2028
What they work on
- Compare electronic quitline referral against a centralized health-system phone counseling plus nicotine replacement program for lung screening patients, measuring biologically verified quitting at 3 and 6 months.
- Test whether stepped-care treatment helps patients still smoking at 3 months, and identify mediators and moderators of success such as engagement and readiness to quit.
- Evaluate reach and engagement by race and ethnicity, insurance status and readiness to quit, using mixed methods to judge the feasibility and acceptability of each approach.
- Estimate costs, cost per quit and budget impact of both interventions from the health-system perspective at 3 and 6 months.
More about the research
This is especially true for racial and ethnic minority groups, underinsured patients and people not yet ready to quit. This project asks which practical approach works best and how to deliver it routinely in a large health system.
Why it matters
Older adults getting lung cancer screening are at high risk for tobacco-related disease. This trial could show health systems which scalable, low-cost quit-smoking program to pair with screening, and how to reach underserved patients. That could help cut lung cancer deaths and guide adoption in other large health systems.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Georgetown University: 14 labs on PI Pages, $377M a year on research, 206 research doctorates a year.
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