Social Determinants of Health and Lung Cancer Care and Control

Dr. Ruth Carlos, Dr. Lucy Spalluto, and patient advocate Andrea Borondy-Kitts discuss social determinants of health and how they affect lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, including what disparities currently exist, how policy changes could reduce those disparities, and how to move closer to health equity.

Ruth C. Carlos, MD, MS, FACR is a Professor of Radiology, and serves as the Assistant Chair for Clinical Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Carlos additionally serves as the National Lung Cancer Roundtable’s Policy Task Force Chair and as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR). Lucy Spalluto, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Radiology as well as a health services researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Spalluto serves on the ACR's Commission on Patient- and Family-Centered Care and Commission for Women and Diversity, and as a Past President of the American Association for Women in Radiology (AAWR). Andrea Borondy-Kitts, MS, MPH, is a retired aerospace engineer who became a patient advocate after losing her husband to lung cancer in 2013. Ms. Borondy-Kitts is an Associate Editor for the JACR and serves as an experienced patient advocate to a number of national and local organizations, including the ACR and NLCRT, and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Prevention & Control Network.

As a follow-up to the National Lung Cancer Roundtable and American College of Radiology’s 2021 webinar series, the “Power of Partnerships” limited podcast series will feature conversations currently happening in the world of lung cancer with the people pushing the field into the future.

Additional information on this topic, as well as the resources mentioned during the episode, can be found at https://www.acr.org/Clinical-Resources/Lung-Cancer-Screening-Resources.