Inside Health Care #92: Dr. Raymond Osarogiagbon & the Hopes of Lung Cancer IPN Screenings

Quality Matters: A Podcast by NCQA

On this episode of Inside Health Care, we help observe the Lung Cancer Awareness month of November with a talk on advances in lung cancer screening. This interview, recorded at our Inside Health Care podcast center at the 2022 Health Innovation Summit, is sponsored by AstraZeneca.

Dr. Raymond Osarogiagbon is the Chief Scientist at Baptist Memorial Healthcare Corporation, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. He is Director of the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program and the Thoracic Oncology Research Group at the Baptist Cancer Center, and Principal Investigator of the Baptist Health System/Mid-South Minority-Underserved Consortium NCORP. Dr. Osarogiagbon’s research interests center around improving population-level outcomes of cancer care by improving care delivery systems and processes.

For training regarding lung cancer screenings, here are a few offerings to mention. First, as part of our 2022 Quality Innovation Series, NCQA offers the on-demand course titled “The Importance of Lung Cancer Screening”, led in part by our Vice President for Performance Measurement, Dr. Mary Barton.

In addition, consider these two webinars from the Academy of Oncology Nurse and Patient Navigators. One is from September 2022, titled “The Role of Oncology Nurse Navigators in the Implementation of the Updated Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines.” The other, released October 31st of 2022, is “Navigating the Updated Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines: The Role of Oncology Nurses and Nurse Navigators in the Implementation of a Lung Cancer Screening Program”.

Then we hear another interview recorded live at the Summit. This talk with Dr. Juan Espinoza discusses topics in and around the panel he co-hosted, titled “Digital Reshaping of the Diabetes Health-Care Ecosystem”. He appeared alongside, among others, Dr. Osagie Ebekozien, whose interview is posted as episode 7 of our limited series, “A View from the Summit”. Juan Espinoza, MD is a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital in L.A., where he focuses on developing medical devices, health information systems, and patient-generated health data. The guiding principle of Dr. Espinoza’s work is that data and technology have the potential to narrow the health gap faced by under-served communities all over the world.

Later in our "Fast Facts" segment, we give you quick stats from the CDC on Lung Cancer prevention.