Publications by Dr. Jessica Cook
Jessica Cook, PhD, is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and is an investigator at UW-CTRI. Dr. Cook is also an investigator at the William S. Middleton Memorial VA, where she directs the Veterans Tobacco Research Group and co-directs the VA Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Addictions Treatment.
Dr. Cook’s research program focuses on evaluating innovative smoking treatments, particularly in those not ready to quit, and developing strategies that increase the utilization of tobacco treatment. Her research also explores the nature of tobacco dependence and motivation, particularly among affectively vulnerable individuals. Dr. Cook has conducted a series of studies that have been instrumental in establishing anhedonia as a motivationally significant symptom of the tobacco withdrawal syndrome.
Dr. Cook is currently Principal Investigator of a VA Merit-funded grant examining a chronic care tobacco intervention in veterans who are unwilling to quit smoking. Dr. Cook obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Illinois-Chicago and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in Seattle at the VA Northwest Network Mental Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center.
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Dr. Jessica Cook
Publications