Dr. Adrienne Johnson has been promoted to Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in the Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, UW-CTRI. “Approximately 80 percent of my time will be conducting research,” Johnson said, “10 percent doing clinical work (beginning July 1), and 10 percent teaching/service activities (this will include me directing the 4th year Medical School 2 …
Researchers representing UW-CTRI and the Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) presented findings at the Annual Conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) in Baltimore April 14-18. Here is a summary: UW-CTRI Co-Research Director and SRNT President Dr. Megan Piper presented the SRNT presidential address at the presidential symposium. In her state of SRNT …
Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), addressed researchers at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Conference in Baltimore. Zeller discussed regulating synthetic nicotine, banning combustible mentholated tobacco products, and protecting kids. Banning MentholsZeller said long-awaited menthol bans are coming soon. “We are on track to issue two …
In April 2022, the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) celebrated 30 years of helping people quit tobacco use. Founded by Drs. Michael Fiore and Timothy Baker, UW-CTRI is nationally recognized for its ground-breaking tobacco research that is translated into tobacco treatment. UW-CTRI staff gathered at the Pyle Center in Madison, Wisconsin to celebrate. UW-CTRI …
UW-CTRI and C3I colleagues are presenting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco in Baltimore, Maryland, March 15-18, 2022. Here’s a list, with all times Eastern Standard Time. Note: This year, due to the pandemic, there will be in-person and digital components to many of these offerings. Pre-Conference Symposia …
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, ad firm KW2 and UW-CTRI are partnering to run advertisements to promote the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line across the state. The ads began February 21 and will run through March 14. Tactics include TV ads in Milwaukee, Green Bay, LaCrosse/Eau Claire, and Wausau markets, paid social media posts, online videos, …
UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Megan Piper is featured in the latest episode of the podcast Freakonomics, M.D. The episode is called “Should We Pay People to Be Healthier?“ At the request of Dr. Tim Baker, Piper discussed research in the field by Baker, Michael Fiore and others. The podcast’s website garners 11,000 unique visitors per day and 4.2 …
Nature Reviews, a group that owns 21 journals with some of the largest impact factors, is publishing the medications treatment chart created by UW-CTRI. The chart is designed to help clinicians properly treat patients for tobacco dependence. Their website gets an average of 10,028 unique visitors per day and 3.6 million per year. The UW-CTRI …
The Wisconsin Partnership Program has awarded a two-year grant for a total of $300,000 to support analysis of Wisconsin data from the COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin (CEC-UW). In April 2020, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invited the University of Wisconsin to reach out to health systems heavily impacted by COVID-19, inviting …
Thanks to funding from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP), UW-CTRI will provide training and technical assistance to public health professionals across the state to help patients with substance use disorders quit smoking, in support of new state requirements in the revised Wisconsin Administrative Code DHS Chapter 75. …