UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Dr. Will Bringgold, a second-year resident with the UW Internal Medicine Department, is working with UW-CTRI Drs. Kristin Berg, Stevens Smith, and other colleagues to analyze baseline pulmonary data from the Exhale Study. The Exhale Study, led by principal investigators Drs. Megan Piper and Doug Jorenby and study manager Kate Kobinsky, wrapped up recruitment recently, …
UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist Amy Skora spoke about smoking, vaping, and the latest treatments to help patients quit at the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin annual meeting Sept. 16 at the Radisson Hotel in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The Society has about 600 members. Her talk was a break-out session titled, “Cold Turkey, E-cigarettes, Meds and More: Developing …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore teamed with other experts, led by Dr. Martin Raw, to create a plan of action to help countries implement tobacco-control strategies, to be published in the journal Addiction. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that only a few countries across the globe have adequate access to health care interventions to …
UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently bestowed the honor of emeritus status on Dr. McBride, recognizing his distinguished career with the Department of Medicine’s cardiovascular medicine section. “I’m really looking forward to helping further the mission of UW-CTRI and the health of the state of Wisconsin and beyond, which was always the focus of my career,” …
UW-CTRI Outreach Director Rob Adsit is serving on the faculty this week in Atlanta for the CDC’s 2017 Tobacco Control Action-Planning Academy. Adsit is one of three instructors teaching the Comprehensive Cessation Interventions Knowledge Building Course, which includes health-systems change and transformation. Adsit is teaching with Catherine Saucedo, Deputy Director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen is taking a tailored approach to reach out to healthcare providers who treat patients with severe mental illness in an effort to get those providers to engage in interventions to help patients quit smoking. Called the “Bucket Approach,” the idea is that patients with severe mental illness, who smoke at …