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Lezli
Redmond, MPH,
Director for Education & Outreach Programs
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Redmond is responsible for developing, managing, and evaluating
UW-CTRI's statewide education and outreach programs designed to
promote smoking cessation. The program she oversees includes training
and technical assistance for healthcare providers, the operation
and promotion of the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line, and the development
of various other statewide initiatives, funded by the Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services, aimed at encouraging
treatment of tobacco dependence.
Redmond has created and developed the Outreach Program which consists
of academic detailing by outreach specialists working from the
state’s regional health department offices.
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Lezli
Redmond,
Outreach Director
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The specialists
provide training and technical assistance to clinicians, healthcare
systems, community clinics and other agencies throughout the state.
In its first three years of operation, the program has provided service
to over 10,000 individuals and 5000 groups.
Redmond also initiated the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line service in Wisconsin.
The Quit Line provides free, individualized smoking cessation counseling
to anyone anywhere in the state of Wisconsin. She also started the Fax
to Quit program which allows healthcare providers to work with the Quit
Line to initiate calls to potential quitters. In its first three years
of operation, over 30,000 callers have called the Quit Line for help.
In 2004, over 300 sites participated in Fax to Quit, generating over
250 referrals each month to Quit Line.
Before coming to UW-CTRI, Redmond served as the Project Director for
the Women's Health Initiative, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin
Medical School through the National Institutes of Health. She has served
as a Research Program Manager for the UW Health Emotions Institute.
She received her bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and her masters in public health from Hunter College in New York City.
To
schedule interviews with UW-CTRI representatives, contact Communications.
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