Members of the Lung Screening Program with co-directors Claudia I. Henschke, PhD, MD, back row, left, and David Yankelevitz, MD, far right.
Several dozen individuals signed up for lung screenings at a recent event hosted by the Mount Sinai Health System’s Lung Screening Program in Guggenheim Pavilion to raise awareness about lung health. “We want certain at-risk people to understand they need an annual lung scan in much the same way they get an annual physical,” says Claudia I. Henschke, PhD, MD, Professor of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Lung Screening Program Co-Director. Attendees picked up literature, spoke with representatives from smoking cessation programs and lung cancer support groups, and were able to walk through a large inflated educational model of a pair of lungs.