UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network Director Lorraine Lathen (right) and UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Danielle McCarthy (below) penned a letter to the editor on the risks of tobacco to African Americans, published in the Cap Times, a weekly paper in Madison, Wisconsin. Edgar Mendez of the Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network pitched …
Deejay Zwaga, MPH, UW-CTRI Biostatistical Analyst, has been awarded grant funding from the National Cancer Center as part of their diversity program. The award is a supplement to the R35 Grant held by UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore in partnership with Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin. “I am very excited about this opportunity,” …
UW-CTRI Assistant Scientist Dr. Adrienne Johnson presented “Smoking in Relation to Aging and Dementia” as part of the online Geriatrics Interprofessional Conference Series. The audience included clinicians and other healthcare providers and academics. Johnson shared research showing that smoking is a modifiable risk for dementia. Quitting smoking reduces risk for cognitive decline at any age. …
UW-CTRI researchers used an electronic device to track the use of nicotine gum by participants in the UW-Partnership to Assist and Serve Smokers (UW-PASS) Study (who also all received nicotine patches), and found that people who had a slip and smoked (lapsed) while trying to quit used less gum right before and after that first …
UW-CTRI Outreach Director Rob Adsit recently presented during a national online conference for all state tobacco prevention and control programs across America. He delivered “Best Practices and Emerging Opportunities for Applying a Comprehensive Approach to Cessation” with Joyce Swetlick, Tobacco Cessation Director for the North Carolina State Health Department. They described the three major cessation goals for state …
UW-CTRI Director of Research Dr. Tim Baker recently served as the discussant for an international half-day webinar on COVID-19 and smoking featuring esteemed researchers from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Presenters included Dr. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin (Yale), Dr. Jonathan Samet (Colorado), Dr. Neal Benowitz (UC-San Francisco), Dr. Olga Perski (London), Dr. Geoffrey Fong …
UW-CTRI has reopened its research studies with COVID-19 safeguards in place, including mask requirements, sanitizing rooms, isolation of patient rooms, and hand sanitizer. The study known as CLUES has restarted and the Options Study has already recruited participants this month. CLUES is studying how vaping, juuling, and smoking affect health. In the case of Options, people in …
UW-CTRI Director of Research Dr. Tim Baker and UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore wrote an editorial in JAMA Open Network commenting on three new research studies on vaping, asserting that our knowledge of the topic is still in its infancy. The three new studies published in JAMA Open Network found: Baker and Fiore said that …
UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Tim Baker is the principal investigator on a new study examining withdrawal from tobacco. The study, coordinated by UW-CTRI Research Fellow Dr. Jesse Kaye, will recruit 300 smokers: 150 to take varenicline for 12 weeks starting one week before their quit day, and another 150 to take varenicline for nine weeks …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Kristin Berg (left) received a Faculty Excellence in Clinical Care Award from the University of Wisconsin Division of General Internal Medicine for her work caring for patients in clinic and in studies. “Very flattering and unexpected,” Berg said. “The ceremony takes place at one of our monthly meetings; this year, it was virtual.” UW-CTRI …