The National Institutes of Health has funded a five-year, $5.7 million grant to the UW to study the long-term effects of vaping on heart and lung health. People who participate will receive up to $675 for completing the three-year study. They’ll also get individualized test results and updates on their health. Although some studies have …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Hasmeena Kathuria has been named the Jan and Kathryn Ver Hagen Professor of Translational Research in Medicine. This professorship confirms the high esteem that colleagues across campus hold for Kathuria’s work. “This is an incredible honor,” said Kathuria, “and I’d like to thank the Ver Hagens, as well as Provost and Vice …
From left: Dr. Brian Williams, Rev. Steven Tipton, Dr. Adrienne Johnson, Dr. Marcia Tipton and Dr. Hasmeena Kathuria. Teens from El Bethel Church in Milwaukee visited UW-CTRI—where faculty spoke to them about smoking and vaping.
UW-CTRI Regional Outreach Specialist Allison (Allie) Gorrilla has taken on an additional duty—coordinating the Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTIP). WiNTiP was co-founded by Dr. Eric Heiligenstein and David “Mac” Macmaster back in 2008, and originally managed by UW-CTRI Distinguished Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen, who retired in 2022. It is supported by the Wisconsin Commercial …
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $3.8 million grant to UW-CTRI to see if nicotine pouches can replace smoking among participants in a randomized comparative effectiveness study. “It’s a question of public health,” said Co-Principal Investigator and UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Thomas Piasecki. “The toxic byproducts of tobacco combustion are responsible for a great …
Using wearable devices to collect data from participants, researchers developed novel analytic strategies to examine how heart rate changes when participants were getting ready to vape. They found that the average heart rate increased before a vaping event. Importantly, the development of increasing heart rate observed in this study suggested that there may be time …
Clinicians should assess both daily and nondaily cigarette smoking, as either can include patients with tobacco use disorder (TUD), according to new research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. TUD prevalence estimates are lacking, likely because studies generally assess only daily smoking or heaviness of smoking, wrote lead author Dr. Joanna Streck of Harvard …
UW-CTRI’s Dr. Brian Williams remembers caring for a patient who was preparing for a transplant and the patient was concerned vaping would affect his transplant candidacy. Williams and colleague Dr. Jesse Kaye published a paper in Pediatric Transplantation on the importance of helping patients like him. “Given the close relationship that many pediatric transplant providers …
The 2024 UW-CTRI All-Staff Meeting was anything but typical. It was the first time in the Center’s 32 years that it marked the change of directors. Dr. Michael Fiore, who co-founded the organization with Dr. Tim Baker, and served as its founding director for 32 years, welcomed the group that included new UW-CTRI Director Dr. …
The Milwaukee Collaboration Project celebrated the contributions of the Community Advisory Board (CAB) last month in Milwaukee. The CAB is comprised of African American professionals, residents of Milwaukee with experience pertaining to tobacco use, and other state and national public health leaders. The CAB played an integral role in the pilot project, guiding the proposed …