UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Helping teens quit smoking is daunting, but more research could reveal innovative ways to help, according to an editorial in JAMA Pediatrics by UW-CTRI Associate Research Director Dr. Megan Piper, Dr. Robin Mermelstein of the University of Illinois-Chicago, and UW-CTRI Director of Research Dr. Timothy Baker. The editorial was a response to the JAMA Pediatrics …
Amy Skora knows a lot about how to help people quit smoking, but it would take her quite some time to individually drive to visit with every smoker living in public housing in America. (Think of the tolls and rest stops, oy!) What the UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist could and did do, though, was to serve …
Installment four of our series on BREATHE 2 collaborators Dr. Dan Bolt remembers the time, early in his career at UW, when he was teaching statistics and UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Tim Baker sat in on his class. Did Baker pass? Bolt quipped: Baker passed, all right… on showing up to his class again! But it …
UW-CTRI staff contributed a chapter to the new report from US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams on smoking cessation. UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Timothy Baker, Outreach Director Rob Adsit, and UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore wrote chapter 7 in the report, “Clinical-, System-, andPopulation-Level Strategies that Promote Smoking Cessation.” UW-CTRI Librarian Dr. Wendy Theobald assisted …
More than 260 people have taken the new online Bucket Approach training for clinicians to learn how to help patients with serious or significant mental illness to quit smoking. The course, developed by UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen, offers 8.25 free continuing education credits. The project is funded by the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services …
UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Danielle McCarthy is the recipient of a 2020 UW-Madison Postdoc Mentoring Award from the UW-Madison Postdoctoral Association. McCarthy was nominated by UW-CTRI Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Nayoung Kim, who since 2017 has conducted research under McCarthy’s tutelage. Together, they have developed multiple manuscripts in clinical and population research, delivered …
Dr. Robin Mermelstein’s connection with UW-CTRI goes back 20 years and continues on a new grant. “I feel incredibly honored to be part of the CTRI team,” she said. “They are the premiere experts in smoking cessation delivery, doing cutting-edge treatment on how to make it work. I admire their creativity and pragmatism, working within …
Dr. Russ Glasgow is the Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Research Professor of Family Medicine who has focused his career on chronic illness prevention and care models that can improve healthcare in the real world. Back in 2013, Glasgow and UW-CTRI Director Dr. …
Dr. Wei-Yin Loh has written computer software code from scratch spanning 80,000 lines that has revolutionized UW-CTRI’s ability to predict important outcomes. Nowadays, computer code is available for free on the Internet (known as “open source”) but, when Loh started writing his computer code to help predict variables in 1990, it wasn’t that easy. “The …
UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper has been elected president of the national Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) by its 1500 members. Piper said she is “honored to follow in the line of past presidents.” Piper has served on the board of SRNT for six years as the elected treasurer-secretary. …