Kim Sandler, MD
I am a Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and serve as the Vice Chair for Faculty Development for our department and Director of the Vanderbilt Lung Screening Program. I completed my fellowship training in Cardiothoracic Imaging at Vanderbilt in 2015 and now interpret diagnostic imaging studies for pulmonary and cardiovascular medicine. I am currently the Co-Chair of the American College of Radiology Lung Cancer Screening Steering Committee and the Imaging Chair of the Thoracic Committee for ECOG-ACRIN. My research interests include improving outreach for lung screening, particularly for women and underrepresented minorities, and improving our ability to differentiate benign and malignant lung nodules with CT imaging. I work with researchers from a variety of disciplines including pulmonary medicine, surgery, engineering and others to improve image utilization with machine learning and big data. I am currently working on projects designed to decrease the false positive rate of lung screening examinations by combining low dose CT imaging with blood-based biomarkers, machine learning, and radiomic evaluation of pulmonary nodules.