Dr. Robert Lentz
Specialty: Interventional Pulmonology
Primary Area of Research: Advanced Bronchoscopy, Pleural disease, lung cancer biomarkers
Research Focus
Dr. Lentz is a clinical researcher with active studies at both Vanderbilt University and the Nashville VA. His work focuses on improving the diagnosis and treatment of lung disease, including research on lung cancer biomarkers, advanced bronchoscopy techniques such as robotic and navigational bronchoscopy, and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction.
He was the lead author of the VERITAS trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2025 — a multicenter study that showed navigational bronchoscopy is just as effective as the previous gold-standard transthoracic needle biopsy for diagnosing lung nodules.