Adrienne Johnson, Ph.D., is a new postdoctoral fellow at the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) and the William S. Middleton Memorial Veteran’s Hospital, supported by a VA Advanced Fellowship in Women’s Health. She is working with UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research, Dr. Megan Piper, for the next two years. Dr. Johnson’s first …
A group of experts from around the country met at Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin in August to discuss progress on partnerships between UW-CTRI, Epic, Smokefree.gov, and three Wisconsin health-care systems to leverage electronic health records (EHR) technology to help patients quit smoking. UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore presented on several projects made possible by …
The FDA announced vaping companies have 60 days to demonstrate they can keep their devices out of the hands of children or the government will consider removing their products from the market. More than 2 million middle and high school students vape, according to the FDA. JUUL Labs alone is worth $15 billion and has …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen has been awarded a one-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to create an online training based on his “Bucket Approach” to help patients with serious or significant mental illness to quit smoking. “Behavioral health practitioners are busy people,” Christiansen said, “so the Bucket Approach is concrete, easy …