Michael
C. Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA, Professor, UW-CTRI Director
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Michael Fiore is a clinically active, tenured professor
of medicine at the University of Wisconsin. Fiore founded—and has served as
director of—the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research
and Intervention (UW-CTRI) since 1992.
Click above to see Fiore talking about how to
reduce tobacco use across the nation.
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 how to quit 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 2008. This document provides a gold standard of care for
treating tobacco dependence for healthcare providers. He also chaired the panels that produced the 1996 and 2000 guidelines.
Along with Dr. Timothy Baker, Dr. Fiore is Principal Investigator on a five-year NIH P-50 grant called UW-PASS, thanks to a grant from the National Cancer Institute. That study launched in 2010 and will continue until 2014.
Dr. Fiore chaired
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Subcommittee on Tobacco
Cessation, 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.
Dr. 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 is the 2011 recipient of the Folkert O. Belzer Award for the faculty member who best embodies the spirit of dedication and commitment to the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. “We are very proud of Mike and his outstanding record of achievement,” said Dr. Robert Golden, dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Dr. Fiore (center) displays the Belzer Award with colleagues Dr. James Stein (left) and UW School of Medicine and Public Health Dean Robert Golden.
Dr. Fiore was principal investigator for a five-year NIH-funded Transdisciplinary
Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) grant that began in 1999 and was 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 trying to quit.
He served as co-director of a
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Program Office, known as Addressing
Tobacco in Managed Care, until the program's conclusion in the summer of 2008.
The Institute on Medicine as a Profession selected Dr. Fiore as one of two physicians nationally to receive the 2009 Physician Advocacy Merit Award.
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 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. In 2009, he earned his master's degree in business adminstration from Wisconsin.
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