Dr. Carla Lamb at Beth Israel Lahey Health joins us to discuss her role in developing early interventional pulmonary training and recommendations, the utility of key diagnostic tools in the subspecialty, evolving roles for lung cancer treatments including bronchial stents, modernized COPD intervention and research, and the future of interventional pulmonary medicine. It is an information-packed interview!

0:16 Intro

1:49 The history of the interventional pulmonology subspecialty

7:12 The Rescue Lung, Rescue Life Society

10:04 Technological advances to low-dose CT scan accuracy

17:04 Utility of bronchial stents in lung cancer care

21:55 Bronchial thermoplasty in asthmatic patients

26:01 Assessing a COPD patient for volume reduction

32:58 Rheoplasty and targeted lung denervation

35:39 Cryobiopsy in ILD

38:58 The future of interventional pulmonology

42:35 Outro

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