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Bucket Approach Continues to Help People Across Wisconsin Quit Smoking
The innovative Bucket Approach to help people quit continues to be a success, changing lives for the better across Wisconsin and beyond. Experts share an example of how.
September 6, 2023Collaborators Meet in Milwaukee with Community Advisory Board
The Milwaukee Collaboration Project held its first Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting in August. The CAB is comprised of African American professionals, residents of Milwaukee, and other state and national public health leaders. The CAB …
September 6, 2023Dr. Hasmeena Kathuria to Succeed Fiore as UW-CTRI Director
Hasmeena Kathuria, MD, has agreed to become the next UW-CTRI director, succeeding founding director Dr. Michael Fiore, Dean Robert Golden announced. UW-CTRI founders Fiore and Dr. Tim Baker will direct the Center until Kathuria takes …
August 21, 2023Study: College Students Vape Much More Than They Realize
A new study found, for the first time, that vaping reported from memory by college students is significantly less than vaping recorded with real-time measures. The research, led by Dr. Anne Buu and colleagues from …
August 4, 2023Innovative VA Study Removes Barriers to Care
A team of UW-CTRI researchers at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison are the first ever to fully recruit for a Veterans Affairs (VA) study to evaluate a chronic-care system designed to …
August 3, 2023UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist Speaks on National Webinar
UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist Allie Gorrilla was a featured speaker on a national webinar, Access to Tobacco Treatment for the Justice-Involved: A Call to Action. Gorrilla and her outreach colleagues are working hard to help this group …
June 28, 2023Study: Machine Learning Used to Analyze 150,000 COVID-19 Patients, Predict Mortality
Researchers utilizing machine learning technology have found that age, hypertension, insurance status, and hospital site are effectively predictive of COVID-19 mortality. In the Scientific Reports paper, researchers detail how they used machine learning to analyze …
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