UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Hasmeena Kathuria, MD, has agreed to become the next UW-CTRI director, succeeding founding director Dr. Michael Fiore, Dean Robert Golden announced. UW-CTRI founders Fiore and Dr. Tim Baker will direct the Center until Kathuria takes the reigns for good in July. Kathuria is a pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine physician whose research, advocacy, and …
UW-CTRI colleagues presented their research findings at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) in San Antonio, Texas. See what they presented below. Researcher Dr. Adrienne Johnson co-chaired a pre-conference session called Tobacco Treatments that Work for Priority Populations. During that pre-conference, Research Director Dr. Danielle McCarthy presented preliminary results …
Three UW-CTRI colleagues are among the top 100 tobacco-control researchers when it comes to paper citations in their careers. According to research by Dr. John Ioannidis and his team from Stanford University, out of more than 9 million authors of tobacco-related research, UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore ranked 20th most-cited. UW-CTRI Associate Director Dr. Tim …
One of the most difficult parts of quitting smoking is knowing what methods will work for any given patient; choosing between types of quit-aids and counseling can sometimes feel like a shot in the dark. However, researchers have found that they might be able to find the answers in genetic code. New findings suggest that …
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators presented five posters at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine Research Day. Dr. Matthew Tattersall created three posters based on data from the Cardiac and LUng E-cig Smoking Study (CLUES), a collaboration between staff from UW Cardiology and UW-CTRI. Tattersall presented two of the posters. In one poster, he described …
The University of Wisconsin published the ninth-most smoking cessation-related publications in the world since 2002, according to a paper in Preventive Medicine Reports. The authors, led by Yingxin Xu of China Medical University, reviewed 8797 publications worldwide on smoking cessation between 2002 and 2021. They reported the number of publications on smoking cessation increased from …
UW-CTRI Founders Dr. Tim Baker and Dr. Michael Fiore are the editors of the new Monograph from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on tobacco use and treatment to be released this month. NCI founded the series in 1991 as the Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph series. It provides comprehensive scientific reviews of tobacco use, treatment, …
UW-CTRI Director of Biostatistical Operations Dr. Stevens Smith will retire January 1, 2023, after 30 years of service at the Center. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to do very meaningful work with great colleagues at UW-CTRI,” said Smith, a professor in the UW Department of Medicine. “In addition to contributing to UW-CTRI’s team science, I had …
Wisconsin Has Worst Smoking Disparity Between Blacks and Whites in Nation African Americans have been targeted for decades by tobacco companies and have suffered especially high health and economic burdens from smoking. However, according to an invited JAMA editorial by researchers from the Universities of Wisconsin and Kentucky, meaningful, recent progress has been made that …
In April 2022, the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) celebrated 30 years of helping people quit tobacco use. Founded by Drs. Michael Fiore and Timothy Baker, UW-CTRI is nationally recognized for its ground-breaking tobacco research that is translated into tobacco treatment. UW-CTRI staff gathered at the Pyle Center in Madison, Wisconsin to celebrate. UW-CTRI …