CT Scan Lung Cancer Screening Tests

The Academic Medicine Development Corporation (AMDeC) is a consortium of all the major medical schools and most of the major hospitals in New York City. Headed by Dr. Maria Mitchell, its goal is to increase biomedical funding of research at the major academic medical centers in New York. Its most recent large-scale project builds upon the outstanding research work of Dr. Claudia Henschke and her collaborators in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell.

AMDeC will provide funding for 10,000 spiral CT scan lung cancer screening tests to be performed. This will allow Dr. Henschke and her collaborators to study the potential benefits of this screening test on a much larger sample than they have previously accrued. Screening of 2,000 smokers and former smokers over the age of 60 will be undertaken at both campuses of NYPH, with 1,000 to be screened at Columbia-Presbyterian under the leadership of Dr. John Austin, and an additional 1,000 at Weill-Cornell. The other scans will be performed at other hospitals throughout the City, with all the data to be accumulated and analyzed by the NYPH investigators.

Also working on this project are Drs. Nasser Altorki, Douglas Flieder, Daniel Libby Alfred Neugut, Mark Pasmantier, Charles Powell, Anthony Reeves, Regina Santella, James P. Smith, Madeline Vazquez, and David Yankelevitz.