Lucy Spalluto

VUMC physician-scientists recognized for extending veterans’ lung cancer screening

Lucy Spalluto, MD, MPH, and Jennifer Lewis, MD, MS, MPH, are the recipients of the 2024 VAQS Team Award for work they began in 2017.

Study seeks to evaluate military exposures on veterans’ lung cancer risk 

A prospective cohort of veterans including those with military toxic exposures, such as burn pits, will be screened annually with low-dose chest CT to detect lung cancer and other disease early.

Spalluto, Lewis to lead VA lung screening initiative

Lucy Spalluto, MD, assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, and Jennifer Lewis, MD, MS, instructor in Medicine, have been selected to co-lead the Veterans Affairs — Partnership to increase Access to Lung Screening (VA-PALS) National Program Evaluation.

Spalluto lands grant from AMA Women Physicians Section

Vanderbilt’s Lucy Spalluto, M.D., assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, was recently named to receive a 2015 Joan F. Giambalvo Fund for the Advancement of Women research grant from the American Medical Association Women Physicians Section.