Stephen Lam MD, FRCPC

ICSN Steering Committee member

University of British Columbia / BC Cancer Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Stephen Lam is the medical director of the British Columbia Lung Screening Program. In 2008, he co-led the first risk prediction model-based clinical trial to select people who had ever smoked for lung cancer screening in eight centres across Canada followed by the International Lung Screening Trial in Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and Spain that reported a significantly better sensitivity and positive predictive value using the risk prediction model approach compared to age and pack-years criteria to determine screening eligibility. His current research includes: the effect of air pollution exposure on lung cancer in people who have never smoked, and AI powered digital solution to personalize lung cancer screening. He serves as an expert advisor for the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and chairs the partnership’s Pan-Canadian Lung Cancer Screening Network. He is a recipient of the IASLC Joseph Cullen Award in lung cancer prevention research and the immediate past-chair of the Early Detection and Screening Committee.