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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.

Michael Fiore discusses his life's work
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 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.

 

Dr. Michael Fiore, UW-CTRI Director
Dr. Michael Fiore,
UW-CTRI Director

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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