UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Fourth-year UW medical students learned about tobacco treatment when they recently completed a public-health elective class led by UW-CTRI Researchers Drs. Megan Piper and Jessica Cook. In past years, the students would get to shadow UW-CTRI experts in person but, due to the pandemic, this year that wasn’t possible. So Kay Lera, Assistant to the UW-CTRI …
UW-CTRI Regional Outreach Specialist Allison Gorrilla and UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore recently presented to healthcare providers at Advocate Aurora Health in Milwaukee. At the presentation, Fiore discussed BREATHE 2 study components and the medical residents’ potential role in the study; Gorrilla presented a brief overview of counseling and the medications, with a specific focus on …
Dr. Megan Piper, UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research, took her place Sunday as SRNT President (release the SRNT-shirt canons!). Before that, she participated in the Presidential Symposium, specifically as part of the Racial Equity Task Force. “Working towards racial equity is a goal that benefits all of the members, and society at large,” Piper said. …
When Carolyn Slater started smoking, she didn’t think much of it. Thirty-eight years later, she didn’t think she would ever be able to quit. “I started smoking before there were warning labels or anybody took it seriously,” she said. “I was following in the footsteps of nearly everyone I knew. I even married a smoker.” …
A behavioral health patient and a provider endorsed the Bucket Approach to tobacco treatment during a recent webinar about the approach for behavioral health providers. The webinars, which took place in December, were a primer on how to integrate tobacco treatment into standard care. It was developed by UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen and the …
Even with training and support, healthcare providers vary markedly in how they address smoking by their patients. New approaches are needed to help them. UW-CTRI Biostatistical Analyst Deejay Zwaga is studying exactly that. It’s thanks to the diversity grant program from the National Cancer Center, a supplement to the R35 Grant held by UW-CTRI Director …
Dr. Tim Baker has been reappointed as UW Chair for Tobacco Research and Intervention Research Professor. The position, which began on January 1, 2021 and lasts through December of 2025, grants Baker funding to continue his research into the treatment and prevention of tobacco dependence. “Working with Mike Fiore and all of my colleagues at …
Dr. Lisa Sullivan Vedder (left), a clinician at various Advocate Aurora clinics, including Aurora St. Luke’s—the pilot location for the BREATHE 2 Study, is excited the study has begun enrolling patients. “Based on the fact I don’t have anyone coming to me with major problems, I’d say it’s going pretty well!” she said with a laugh. …
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators attended the virtual 2020 grantee meeting of the nationwide Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I), part of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Moonshot Initiative, with the goal of helping cancer patients to quit tobacco use. The meeting included representatives from NCI, UW-CTRI, C3I, and 52 C3I cancer centers. This included: Typically …
Katherine Hudson is a new team member at Advocate Aurora Health in Milwaukee collaborating with UW-CTRI as a care manager for BREATHE 2 study patients. Aurora and UW Health are partnering on this UW-CTRI center grant funded by the National Cancer Institute. Tobacco is an important topic to Hudson, as two of her grandparents passed …