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Megan
Piper, PhD
Megan Piper earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin and completed her clinical internship at the Mendota Mental Health Institute. Megan is interested in tobacco dependence research, with the goal that the new knowledge will be translated into better treatments.
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Currently, Megan is working on a number of projects, one of which is analyzing initial data from the Wisconsin Smokers’ Health Study in TTURC 2. She is analyzing data from structured clinical interviews to see how mental health issues are related to tobacco dependence and ability to quit smoking. She is working on a determining the best predictors of smoking cessation success using decision tree analysis, and she's examining gender differences in tobacco dependence.
Megan started at UW-CTRI in 1999 as a graduate student and her first project was working on the U.S. Public Health Service Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, published in 2000. She's now assisting with the current guideline update project, scheduled for release in 2008.
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Megan
Piper,
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Megan, a Madison native, graduated from Carlton College with a degree in chemistry. She earned her master's in clinical psychology from Miami University in Ohio, where she concentrated on alcohol research.
Megan and her husband, Kyle, have a daughter, Jori. Megan has a variety of interests, including playing hockey and baking.
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