While offering patients who smoke cigarettes counseling as well as a prescription to varenicline helps them to quit, it turns out that also adding nicotine patches to those other two treatments doesn’t add much. These findings were published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, with former UW-CTRI researcher and current collaborator Dr. Nayoung Kim …
UW-CTRI Health Counselor Kathleen Cantu and Director of Research Dr. Danielle McCarthy staffed a booth and reached out to kids and their families with information about tobacco use and how to avoid it. It was part of the UW Science Expeditions experience at the Health Sciences Learning Center on the UW-Madison campus. McCarthy’s son, Grant, …
UW-CTRI contributes to the UW Department of Medicine (DOM) in myriad ways – via federal grants, collaborations, communities of practice, publications, sharing of findings and also via participation at UW DOM Research Day. This year, UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Danielle McCarthy and Emeritus Researcher Dr. Stevens Smith reviewed posters on display and honored those who shared insightful, …
Whoo-wee, did UW-CTRI lasso some publicity by granting interviews with big media partners. So wrangle a saddle and check it out!
Most of the cancer center teams who agreed to help their patients quit tobacco use have sustained that high-quality care even after funding for it ended, according to a new paper published in Cancer Medicine by a research team that includes UW-CTRI colleagues. The paper assesses the sustainment of tobacco treatment programs that participated in …
The UW Department of Medicine has selected UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Danielle McCarthy for an Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award for her exceptional contributions to research, mentorship and leadership. “Danielle continues to elevate UW-CTRI’s impact through her work to improve the reach and effectiveness of tobacco treatment, especially for populations disproportionately impacted by tobacco use …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Jesse Kaye was awarded a K23 grant, a major career milestone, from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Drug Abuse. Kaye will explore how machine learning (a subfield of artificial intelligence, or “AI”) might help to personalize treatment in real time for people trying to address their tobacco use. “Personalized treatment …
UW-CTRI researchers and colleagues reviewed data from the 2015-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health of American adults and found only around half of patients who used tobacco products recalled receiving advice from healthcare providers to quit in the past year. The research was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The study …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Jesse Kaye represented the Center well at the 2025 UW Department of Medicine Research Day. He presented a talk and created a poster on the Smoking Treatment for Oncology Patients Study (the STOP Cancer Study), bringing home a Department Speaker Award. Dr. Kaye and Dr. Danielle McCarthy also served as poster judges …
UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Danielle McCarthy talks to UW Health about why quitting tobacco use is so beneficial to cancer patients, and what UW is doing to facilitate it. To read more about the benefits, click here. For free help to quit tobacco use, visit www.quitline.wisc.edu.