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Michael
C. Fiore, MD, MPH, Professor, UW-CTRI Director
Michael Fiore, professor
of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, founded and has served as
director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research
and Intervention (UW-CTRI) since it was established in 1992.
Click above to see Fiore talking about how to
reduce tobacco use across the nation.
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Dr.
Fiore is a nationally recognized expert on tobacco, providing
perspectives to audiences ranging from Good Morning America to
the United States Senate. He has written numerous articles, chapters,
and books on cigarette smoking and was a co-author and consulting
editor of Reducing Tobacco Use—A Report of the Surgeon General
(2000).
Fiore served as chair of the panel that produced the United States
Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco
Use and Dependence, in 2000 which provides a gold standard for
healthcare providers. Currently, he serves as Co-Director of a
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Program Office, Addressing
Tobacco in Managed Care.
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Dr.
Michael Fiore,
UW-CTRI Director
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Dr. Fiore chaired
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Subcommittee on Tobacco
Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health which produced
a comprehensive plan for promoting tobacco cessation in the United States.
In July 2003, he was one of five national recipients of the Innovators
in Combating Substance Abuse Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Fiore’s chief research and policy focus has been to develop strategies
to prompt clinicians and health care systems to intervene with patients
who use tobacco. As part of this effort, he spearheaded the concept
of expanding the vital signs to include tobacco use status. Recent research
shows that 70 percent of physicians now ask patients about their smoking
status.
Dr. Fiore was Co-Principal Investigator for a five-year NIH-funded Transdisciplinary
Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) grant designed to understand tobacco
dependence in order to prevent relapse to smoking. In September, 2004,
he began his role as co-principal investigator of a second, TTURC grant,
seeking to examine tobacco dependence treatment and outcomes with an
eye to determining the effectiveness of various treatments and matching
those treatments to smokers wishing to quit.
After graduating from Bowdoin College, Dr. Fiore completed medical school
at Northwestern University in Chicago and his internal medicine training
at Boston City Hospital. His postgraduate education included a Masters
of Public Health from Harvard University. Dr. Fiore received additional
training as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer for the United
States Centers for Disease Control where he also completed a Preventive
Medicine residency program at the United States Office on Smoking and
Health before coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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schedule interviews with UW-CTRI representatives, contact Communications.
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