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 …
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UW-CTRI’s Amy Skora Serves on Faculty for National Initiative to Help HUD Residents
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 …
Dr. Bolt Helps UW-CTRI Measure How Treatments Work
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 …
UW-CTRI Contributes to U.S. Surgeon General Report on Tobacco Cessation
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 …
More than 260 Health Professionals Take New Online Course on the ‘Bucket Approach’
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 …
Danielle McCarthy Receives Mentorship Award
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 …
Esteemed Researcher Dr. Robin Mermelstein Continues Collaboration with UW-CTRI
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 …
Dr. Russ Glasgow Helps UW-CTRI Bring Research Into the Real World
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 …
BREATHE 2 Collaborator Wrote the Code that Advanced UW-CTRI Research
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 …
Megan Piper Elected President of Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco
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 …