UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
UW-CTRI Co-Founder and Director Dr. Michael Fiore was one of three presenters and the moderator for a national webinar sponsored by the National Cancer Institute as part of the Cancer Moonshot Seminar Series. Fiore, Dr. Betsy Rolland and Dr. Jessica Burris discussed how the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) and its Coordinating Center, the latter …
Colleagues from UW-CTRI celebrated the 31st year of the Center and honored four long-time employees who are retiring or switching roles. They honored Dr. Wendy Theobald, Marie Larson, Dr. Michael Fiore and Dr. Doug Jorenby for their years of contributions to helping people quit tobacco use. While Theobald, Larson, and Jorenby are fully retiring, UW-CTRI …
UW-CTRI Co-Founder and Director Dr. Michael Fiore represented the Center as a special guest at the White House event to celebrate the progress made thanks to the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative—a project to end cancer. Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Control Program Section Chief Vicki Huntington attended as a guest online. “The purpose of the …
The UW Department of Medicine has promoted UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Jessica Cook to full professor with tenure. “This promotion reflects her incredible scholarship and accomplishments,” said UW-CTRI Founder and Director Dr. Michael Fiore. Cook is a Psychologist Investigator at the William S. Middleton Memorial VA, where she directs the Veterans Tobacco Research Group, co-directs the …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore has received a seven-year grant worth $6.5 million to help UW-CTRI identify and disseminate effective, innovative ways to help cancer patients quit smoking. Specifically, UW-CTRI researchers, led by Principal Investigator Fiore, will further evaluate innovative approaches to helping cancer patients who smoke to quit. This will build on a national initiative …
Dr. Michael Fiore will step down as UW-CTRI Director July 1, 2023 but will continue working as a lead scientist on key grants and mentoring young investigators. Fiore co-founded UW-CTRI in 1992 with Associate Director Dr. Tim Baker and has been the director ever since. “It has been a great 30 years,” Fiore said, “and …
UW-CTRI Founders Dr. Tim Baker and Dr. Michael Fiore are the editors of the new Monograph from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on tobacco use and treatment to be released this month. NCI founded the series in 1991 as the Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph series. It provides comprehensive scientific reviews of tobacco use, treatment, …
Dr. Michael Fiore presented “Unfinished Business” at the American Thoracic Society Meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Lynn Schnapp, the chair of the UW Department of Medicine, introduced Fiore’s talk. Fiore discussed effective policies to promote tobacco cessation, including increasing the price via taxes, smokefree policies, media campaigns, the Affordable Care Act, and FDA regulation. He …
During Wisconsin Recovery Alignment Day at the Wisconsin State Capitol on May 3, David “Mac” Macmaster was presented with the Hope of Recovery Community Advocate Award, sponsored by national pharmacy benefit solutions provider Serve You Rx. US Senator Tammy Baldwin pays tribute to David “Mac” Macmaster and others. During the event, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore was one of nine members of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health inducted to the national medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) at an event last month with Dean Robert Golden. AOA is dedicated to recognizing and enhancing professionalism, academic excellence, service, and leadership within the …