UW-CTRI Staff Rose From the (Cigarette) Ashes at National Conference in Phoenix

UW-CTRI employees and partners presented research findings June 10-12 in Phoenix as part of the National Conference on Tobacco or Health. Below is a list of UW-CTRI presenters and topics:

• Michael Fiore and Bruce Christiansen: “The 2008 PHS Practice Guidelines on Smoking Cessation: Opportunities and Challenges to Further Progress in Smoking Cessation,” invited 90-minute sub-plenary presentation.
• Lezli Redmond, Robert Adsit, Vicki Stauffer, Michael Fiore: “Changing Practice, Changing Systems, Changing Lives: The UW-CTRI Outreach Program,” 30-minute presentation.
• Paula Keller, Bruce Christiansen, Jill Lackey, Lezli Redmond, Cheryl McIlquham, Michael Fiore: “Increasing Consumer Demand for Tobacco-Dependence Treatment Among Medicaid Enrollees,” 30-minute presentation.
• Kate Kobinskyand Lezli Redmond: “Increasing Fax-Referral-Enrollment Rates to a State Quitline,” 30-minute presentation.
• Michael Fiore, Donna Warner, Matt McKenna and Ursula Bauer: “Supporting System-Level Changes in Healthcare to Address Tobacco Use,” panel.
• Eric Heiligenstein (WiNTiP collaborator), Jill Williams, Steven S. Kipnis and Kimber Richter: “Helping People with Mental Health and Substance Use Problems to Quit: The Forgotten Smokers,” panel.
• Paula Keller: “Do State-Level Factors Matter? Tobacco-Cessation Quitline Spending in 2005 and 2006,” poster.
• Erin TerBeek: “State Agencies and the Treatment of Tobacco in AODA/Mental Health Programs,” poster. Presented by Bruce Christiansen.
• Robert Adsit, Donna Warner, Ann Wendling, Gillian Schauer and Karen Siener: “Thirteen States Share Innovative Strategies to Improve Systems in Healthcare to Address Tobacco,” poster.
• Kate Kobinsky: “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Wisconsin's Tobacco Quit Line by Method of Entry,” poster.
• Vicki Stauffer, Lezli Redmond, Kate Kobinsky, Moira Harrington, Michael Fiore and Megan Sheffer, “Creating a Perfect Storm to Increase Consumer Demand for Wisconsin's Tobacco Quit Line,” poster.
• Bruce Christiansen, Maureen Hill, Marva Brooks and Kevin Reeder: “ZIP Code Project,” 30-minute presentation.
• Spencer Straub, Luke Witkowski: “FACT They Killed 8000 Campaign,” 30-minute presentation.