LiveLung Nashville’s June Meeting to Feature Dr. Emily Kobin on Supportive and Palliative Care

NASHVILLE, TN (June 9, 2025): LiveLung, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting lung cancer patients, survivors, and their care partners, invites the Nashville lung cancer community to its educational meeting, which includes complimentary lunch, on Wednesday, June 17, from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm at West End UMC 2200 West End Avenue, Room LL2, Nashville, TN 37203.

This month’s meeting will feature Emily Kobin, MD, Palliative Care Physician at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Internal Medicine and Public Health, Section of Palliative Care, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, presenting “Living Well with Lung Cancer: The Value of Supportive & Palliative Care.” Attendees will learn how supportive and palliative care can help people with lung cancer manage symptoms, clarify goals, and improve quality of life throughout and beyond treatment.

In her practice, Dr. Kobin focuses on listening closely to what matters most to patients and helping ensure those priorities guide their care. She also strives to create a safe space where patients and their care partners can discuss both physical and psychological concerns. Dr. Kobin’s professional interests include educating clinicians to communicate effectively with patients, strengthening the patient-provider relationship, and teaching students, residents, and fellows the importance of goals-based care. She is also committed to advancing the use of telemedicine in palliative care and served as co-principal investigator at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in a multicenter trial examining how palliative care delivered via telemedicine, compared with in-person care, affects quality of life for cancer patients.

LiveLung’s educational meetings provide valuable resources and opportunities for lung cancer patients, survivors, and their care partners to learn, network, and build community. Each meeting features an expert guest speaker who shares insights to empower attendees with knowledge and support.

The LiveLung Nashville chapter meets the 3^rd Wednesday of every month. Lung cancer patients and their care partners are welcome to learn more and register at https://www.livelung.org/meetings/nashville or call 877.311.LUNG (5864).

About LiveLung

LiveLung is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that aims to improve health outcomes by advancing lung cancer education, early detection, and compassion for lung cancer patients. We do this by hosting a network of monthly educational community lung cancer patient groups. We also provide resource bags to dozens of cancer centers, where nurse navigators give them to newly diagnosed lung cancer patients.