Dr. Fiore One of Two Doctors to Receive National Merit Award

Dr. Michael Fiore, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of two physicians in the nation to receive the 2009 Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institute of Medicine as a Profession. Fiore is founder and director of UW-CTRI. He served as chair of the panels that produced both the original U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, in 2000 and its updated version in 2008. The PHS guidelines are considered the national gold standard for health care providers. Fiore is also a widely published researcher who has focused on assessing treatments that help smokers quit most effectively.

Dr. Michael Fiore, UW-CTRI Director

“Mike Fiore’s stellar work as a scientist, physician, researcher and advocate has put UW-Madison in the international spotlight as an incomparable resource in the fight against tobacco,” said Dr. Robert Golden, dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. “This honor is appropriate recognition of the many roles he plays so well.”

Under Dr. Fiore's supervision, UW-CTRI has become internationally recognized as a worldwide authority on tobacco research and cessation.

The Institute of Medicine as a Profession is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making professionalism a major force in medicine. It was founded in 2003. 
Fiore will be honored in an awards ceremony November 19 in Washington, D.C.

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