Brett C. Bade MD

Dr. Bade is a pulmonary and critical care physician practicing in New York. His clinical and research interests are in lung cancer screening and survivorship care. Though screening has the potential to dramatically improve lung cancer mortality and survival, the current “state” of care is that few patients undergo screening, adherence to follow-up is poor, and disparities in healthcare (e.g., race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status) impair the provision of screening. Further, once diagnosed, most patients with lung cancer have chronic quality-of-life (QoL) impairments. Dr. Bade's career goal is to improve the current standard of lung cancer care by (1) identifying barriers to lung cancer screening; (2) design, test, and implement measures to address identified barriers; (3) identify predictors of impaired QoL in lung cancer survivors, and (4) design, test, and implement measures to optimize QoL.