Lynn Tanoue

Lynn Tanoue, MD, MBA, is a professor in the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and vice-chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Tanoue received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and medical degree from Yale. She completed her internal medicine residency, chief residency, and fellowship in pulmonary/critical care medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. Her clinical interests focus on thoracic oncology and lung cancer screening. She is a founding member of the multidisciplinary Yale Cancer Center Thoracic Oncology Program and director of the Yale Lung Screening and Nodule Program. She established the Yale New Haven Hospital Tuberculosis Outreach Program, which over the past twenty years has performed tuberculosis screening in thousands of English-as-a-second-language students enrolled at the New Haven Center for Adult Education. She has had numerous leadership roles at Yale New Haven Hospital, including as past president of the medical staff. Dr. Tanoue serves on numerous national committees; she is a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network lung cancer screening guidelines committee, past chair of the American Thoracic Society Thoracic Oncology Assembly, and current chair of the Pulmonary Medicine Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Tanoue is an active clinician, mentor, and educator at Yale, where she has received a number of awards including the Leffell Prize for Clinical Excellence, the Department of Internal Medicine Faculty Achievement Award for Clinical Care, the Dean’s Mentors Award, and the Leah Lowenstein Award. Her contributions to Yale School of Medicine include the founding of the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra, of which she is a member and president of its board of directors.