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Anna McDaniel, PhD, RN, FAAN, Indiana School of Nursing
Dr. McDaniel's research is in informatics with particular emphasis on cancer prevention and control. Her most recent research efforts have focused on smoking cessation and prevention. She directs the graduate nursing informatics certificate program.
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Jeffrey L. Fellows, PhD., Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
Jeffrey L. Fellows, PhD is a health economist and CHR Investigator with extensive experience assessing the disease burden of tobacco and evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of tobacco control interventions. His research seeks to quantify the health and economic consequences of tobacco use and develop innovative methods for promoting cessation. Dr. Fellow's research also seeks to analyze the cost-effectiveness of various interventions in as divergent fields as domestic abuse shelters, dental research, and web-based smoking cessation programs.
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Jennifer Irvin Vidrine, Ph. D., The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Jennifer Irvin Vidrine, is the Assistant Professor, Department of Health Disparities Research, Division of OVP, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at the The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Vidrine’s research focuses on eliminating health disparities through investigating potential “windows of opportunity” for promoting health behavior change, developing and evaluating the impact of tailored health risk communications, evaluating potential mechanisms underlying changes in risk perceptions over time in the natural environment and disseminating evidence-based tobacco cessation interventions to underserved populations. Although the primary emphasis of her work to date has been on tobacco, she is very interested in other cancer risk behaviors such as cancer screening.
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Jennifer McClure, PhD., Group Health Research Institute
Jennifer McClure's research aims to promote healthy behaviors in a way that real people can relate to. Her comprehensive approach focuses on forging meaningful connections with people to help them identify and overcome individual barriers and make healthy, long-term lifestyle choices. She also strives to create treatment programs that augment standard medical care and are accessible and acceptable to the public.
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Jonathon Bricker, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jonathan Bricker is an Assistant Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. His research focuses on novel behavioral interventions for changing health behavior delivered at the public health level and psycho-social influences on health behavior over the course of the lifespan.
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Karen Suchanek Hudmon, Dr.P.H., Purdue University Department of Pharmacy Practice
Karen Suchanek Hudmon is an Associate Profession at the Department of Pharmacy Practice. Karen's research includes the treatment of tobacco use and dependence through expansion of the clinician's role in cessation, the study of predictors of smoking among adolescents and young adults, understanding the role of genetics in the development and maintenance of tobacco use and dependence, and medication compliance and medication safety.
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Katie Witkiewitz, PhD, Washington State University, Vancouver
Katie Witkiewitz, is Assistant Professor in Psychology at the Vancouver campus of Washington State University. Katie teaches courses in abnormal psychology, addiction, and quantitative methodology and conduct research on a variety of topics.
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Kimber P. Richter, PhD, MPH, University of Kansas Medical Center
Kimber Richter is Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine & Public Health at KUMC. Kim’s expertise and passion are focused on understanding and treating tobacco dependence. Specific projects include direct observation of substance abuse treatment facilities to identify what they do (and don’t do) to help their clients quit smoking, training staff to address tobacco dependence among people in treatment for mental illness, and summarizing service data to evaluate a hospital-based smoking cessation program for inpatients. She co-founded and co-chairs the Kansas Alliance for Health Advocates. She serves on the boards of the Kansas Public Health Association and the American Association for Medical Education and Research on Substance Abuse, and on the International Advisory Board for Current Drug Abuse Reviews and is Associate Editor for Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Kim also co-directs Health of the Public, an important clerkship for 4th-year medical students.
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Laura A. Beebe, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Laura Beebe is Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Chair of the OU Cancer Institute Cancer Outreach Advisory Committee at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include the epidemiology of tobacco use, program evaluation research, health disparities, and community cancer prevention and control.
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Michelle Levine, Phd., University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Levine is Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include psychosocial factors in women's health behaviors, particularly, obesity and eating behaviors, and health behavior change intervention with postpartum women.
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Sheryl Catz, PhD., Group Health Research Institute
Dr. Catz is a clinical health psychologist with expertise in behavioral interventions and treatment adherence for chronic disease, especially HIV. Much of her research involves hard-to-reach populations, including prisoners and people over age 50 living with HIV. She is currently interested in looking at how health systems can use technological changes to facilitate patient-centered care.
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Steven L. Bernstein, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Steven Bernstein is the Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Vice Chair, Academic Affairs; Interim Program Director, Residency Program; and Interim Director of the Division of Education at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Bernstein's chief interest is in clinical trials of tobacco dependence treatment. He developed a screening and treatment intervention for tobacco users in the hospital emergency department, and programs to train providers in tobacco control.
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Stevens Smith, PhD., University of Wisconsin, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Stevens Smith is Associate Professor at UW-CTRI where he has been involved in numerous studies investigating behavioral and pharmacotherapy treatments for nicotine dependence, the nature and measurement of nicotine withdrawal and dependence, and the genetics of tobacco use, dependence and cessation. In addition, Dr. Smith has a special interest in health disparities research aimed at reducing the negative health and social effects of addictive tobacco use in American Indian individuals and communities.
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