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More than 260 Health Professionals Take New Online Course on the ‘Bucket Approach’
More than 260 people have taken the new online Bucket Approach training for clinicians to learn how to help patients with serious or significant mental illness to quit smoking. The course, developed by UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce …
January 16, 2020Danielle McCarthy Receives Mentorship Award
UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Danielle McCarthy is the recipient of a 2020 UW-Madison Postdoc Mentoring Award from the UW-Madison Postdoctoral Association. McCarthy was nominated by UW-CTRI Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Nayoung Kim, who …
January 16, 2020Esteemed Researcher Dr. Robin Mermelstein Continues Collaboration with UW-CTRI
Dr. Robin Mermelstein’s connection with UW-CTRI goes back 20 years and continues on a new grant. “I feel incredibly honored to be part of the CTRI team,” she said. “They are the premiere experts in …
January 14, 2020Dr. Russ Glasgow Helps UW-CTRI Bring Research Into the Real World
Dr. Russ Glasgow is the Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Research Professor of Family Medicine who has focused his career on chronic illness …
January 14, 2020BREATHE 2 Collaborator Wrote the Code that Advanced UW-CTRI Research
Dr. Wei-Yin Loh has written computer software code from scratch spanning 80,000 lines that has revolutionized UW-CTRI’s ability to predict important outcomes. Nowadays, computer code is available for free on the Internet (known as “open …
January 10, 2020Megan Piper Elected President of Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco
UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper has been elected president of the national Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) by its 1500 members. Piper said she is “honored to follow in …
January 9, 2020Paper Calls on Oncologists to Help Patients Quit Smoking
Oncology centers should make tobacco treatment a fourth pillar of their care, according to a recent paper published in JAMA Network by UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore, UW Carbone Cancer Center Assistant Scientist Dr. Heather …
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