Lauren Kearney MD

Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine

75 E. Newton St | (617) 638-6805
lekearn@bu.edu

Biography

Dr. Kearney is a pulmonary and critical care fellow at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and research fellow at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and VA Boston Center for Health Optimization and Implementation Research (CHOIR). Her clinical and research efforts focus on engaging our communities to design, implement, and study interventions that are culturally tailored, relevant, and effective. Her goal is to reduce health disparities in lung cancer prevention including tobacco use and screening.

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Education

Medicine, MD, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine

Publications

Published on 11/25/2025

Kearney L, Carter-Bawa L, Wiener RS. A Digital Direct-to-Patient Intervention Shows Promise to Improve Lung Cancer Screening Rates: Multilevel Strategies Remain Essential. JAMA. 2025 Nov 25; 334(20):1799-1801. PMID: 41115001.

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Published on 7/23/2025

Wu A, Nguyen T, Do H, Chen F, Marquez H, Zolla J, Cohen R, Mattie K, Digesu C, Merritt J, Nuccio N, Wilson KC, Ieong M, Kearney LE. Transitioning From Race-Specific to Race-Neutral Reference Equations for Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation at a Large Safety Net Hospital System. Chest. 2025 Jul 23. PMID: 40712949.

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Published on 3/23/2025

Barker AM, Wiener RS, Reisman J, Kearney L, Dones M, Fix GM. Black US military veterans respond favourably to a booklet using narratives to normalise shared decision-making. Public Health Pract (Oxf). 2025 Jun; 9:100606. PMID: 40230583.

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Published on 11/22/2024

Boudreau JH, Bolton RE, Núñez ER, Caverly TJ, Kearney L, Sliwinski S, Herbst AN, Slatore CG, Wiener RS. Veterans' Lung Cancer Risk Conceptualizations versus Lung Cancer Screening Shared Decision-Making Conversations with Clinicians: A Qualitative Study. Med Decis Making. 2025 Jan; 45(1):86-96. PMID: 39575828.

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Published on 10/7/2024

Bolton RE, Núñez ER, Boudreau J, Kearney LM, Ryan SK, Herbst A, Slatore C, Wiener RS. "We don't get that information right back to us unless it's a full-blown cancer": Challenges coordinating lung cancer screening across healthcare systems. Health Serv Res. 2025 Feb; 60(1):e14384. PMID: 39375035.

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Published on 8/20/2024

Kearney LE, Belancourt P, Katki HA, Tanner NT, Wiener RS, Robbins HA, Landy R, Caverly TJ. The Development and Performance of Alternative Criteria for Lung Cancer Screening. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Sep; 177(9):1222-1232. PMID: 39159457.

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Published on 6/22/2024

Shen BH, Dobie AC, Shusterman SL, Duzgol M, Homer-Bouthiette C, Kearney LE, Newman J, Pang B, Shankar DA, Zhang J, Gillmeyer KR, Bosch NA, Law AC. Variation in Triage to Pediatric vs Adult ICUs Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Asthma Exacerbations. CHEST Crit Care. 2024 Sep; 2(3). PMID: 39364391.

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Published on 3/8/2024

Kearney L, Bolton RE, Núñez ER, Boudreau JH, Sliwinski S, Herbst AN, Caverly TJ, Wiener RS. Tackling Guideline Non-concordance: Primary Care Barriers to Incorporating Life Expectancy into Lung Cancer Screening Decision-Making-A Qualitative Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Sep; 39(12):2284-2291. PMID: 38459413.

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Published on 2/23/2024

Kearney L, Nguyen T, Steiling K. Disparities across the continuum of lung cancer care: a review of recent literature. Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2024 Jul 01; 30(4):359-367. PMID: 38411202.

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Published on 2/9/2024

Kearney LE, Jansen E, Kathuria H, Steiling K, Jones KC, Walkey A, Cordella N. Efficacy of Digital Outreach Strategies for Collecting Smoking Data: Pragmatic Randomized Trial. JMIR Form Res. 2024 Feb 09; 8:e50465. PMID: 38335012.

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