SUMMIT Research Projects

The Scaling-up and Maintaining Evidence-based Interventions to Maximize Impact on Cancer (SUMMIT) initiative supports rigorous, cutting-edge research to identify effective implementation strategies for scale-up and long-term sustainment of evidence-based lung cancer screening programs among populations at high risk for lung cancer and delivery of tobacco use treatment services for cancer survivors. Findings from the SUMMIT initiative will help create generalizable knowledge on how to scale-up and sustain a range of effective cancer-related interventions. 

The SUMMIT initiative is comprised of four research projects: three projects funded in response to RFA-CA-25-009 and one project funded in response to RFA-CA-25-010.

Increasing Lung Cancer Screening Effectiveness and Access through Regional Networks (I-LEARN)

Grant #: 1UG3CA305780-01

MPIs: 
Katharine A. Rendle, PhD, MPH (Contact PI) 
University of Pennsylvania

Anil Vachani, MD 
New York University

Expanding Lung Cancer Screening to Achieve Excellence (EXHALE)

Grant #: 1UG3CA305707-01

MPIs: 
Karen J. Wernli, PhD (Contact PI) 
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute

Anne L. Escaron, PhD 
AltaMed

Matthew A. Triplette, MD, MPH 
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Implementation Science to Scale and Sustain Tobacco Treatment Leveraging Point of Care Paradigm and Health Information Technology (IMPACT)

Grant #: 1UG3CA305777-01

MPIs: 
Li-Shiun Chen, MD, ScD (Contact PI)   
Washington University in St. Louis

Ross C. Brownson, PhD 
Washington University in St. Louis

Alex T. Ramsey, PhD 
Washington University in St. Louis

Facilitating Scale-Up and Sustainment of High-Quality Lung Cancer Screening Using the>QUILS™ System (QUILS)

Grant #: 1UG3CA305778-01

MPIs: 
Jamie L Studts, PhD (Contact PI) 
University of Colorado Denver

Jennifer Knight, DrPH 
University of Kentucky

Timothy Mullett, MD 
University of Kentucky