Lamb to serve as keynote speaker for Women of Vision April event

Carson-Newman University’s Women of Vision is hosting its annual Spring Gathering, April 11 at 11:30 a.m. Open to the public, the event and luncheon will be held in the Small Dining Room of Stokely Memorial Cafeteria on campus. Registration is free with donations accepted. Donations go toward Women of Vision campus projects. Space for the event is limited.

This year’s keynote speaker is 1988 alumna Dr. Carla Lamb. Recipient of C-N’s 2025 Triumph Award for Natural and Applied Sciences, Lamb serves as director of Interventional Pulmonology at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts.

While as student, Lamb was captain of the cheer squad, Homecoming Queen, Ms. Carson-Newman, and a recipient of the Algernon Sidney-Sullivan Award.

She received her medical residency training and pulmonary/critical care fellowship training at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California, where she also served on active duty as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.

With a primary interest in early diagnosis and treatments for both benign and malignant thoracic and pleural diseases, Lamb is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

She holds a number of leadership positions in the field with both national and international organizations including board member and educational chairperson for the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology. She has served on the steering committee for the Interventional Pulmonary Network of the American College of Chest Physicians and on the editorial board and a peer reviewer of leading medical journals.

An active member of the ACCP expert panel for guidelines for sedation and analgesia for bronchoscopy as well as development of the educational curriculum for interventional pulmonary fellowships, Lamb is also one of the founding members of the Association for Interventional Pulmonary Program Directors (AIPPD).

She actively has participated in a number of clinical research projects spanning bronchial thermoplasty for treatment of asthma, comparative trials of treatment modalities for malignant pleural effusions, evaluation of new technologies for earlier bronchoscopic identification of early stages of lung cancer.

Lamb co-founded Women in Interventional Pulmonology and is the first female president of the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology.

She is a recipient of the Pasquale Ciaglia Memorial Award in Interventional Pulmonary Medicine, the Chadwick Medal for meritorious contributions in pulmonary medicine, and the Sam Moschella Educator of the Year.

To register for the Women of Vision Spring Gathering and luncheon, visit: https://give.cn.edu/register/wovgathering2026