MAY/JUNE 2005
Volume 11 - No. 2

SRNT Newsletter

May/June 2005, Volume 11, Number 2

In the Spotlight

SRNT Central Office change of address: Please take note that the SRNT Central Office has relocated to 2810 Crossroads Drive, Suite 3800, Madison, Wisconsin 53718.
Phone: 608-443-2462 or 608-443-2469
Fax: 608-443-2478
Email: info@srnt.org

Since 2004, Norbert Hirschhorn has been collecting information about research reports and publications based on tobacco industry documents. This work carries on from an earlier bibliography and document-searching manual from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Hirschhorn's bibliography is now in its 5th edition; the next will become available soon after the May (2005) National Conference on Tobacco or Health (http://www.tobaccocontrolconference.org/2005/conference/generalInformation/ ). The most recent edition of this bibliography can be accessed on the SRNT website through the electronic version of this newsletter, which provides an electronic link to the current .pdf file. This link will be updated as necessary over time. For corrections, questions, or new items for the bibliography, please contact Dr. Hirschhorn at bertzpoet@yahoo.com.

Special issue of Addiction on evaluation of the English Smoking Cessation Service: The link below will take you to the content listing and give you full access to .pdf and html files of a special issue of the journal Addiction which focuses on evaluation of the English Smoking Cessation Service, a program that has been ongoing for about the past 5 years. Some regard this as being the most comprehensive national tobacco dependence treatment program in the world. The papers about this successful program may provide invaluable information to other countries/states considering providing treatment services.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/add/100/s2

Jill Williams, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, received a grant from the American Legacy Foundation, through the Small Innovative Grant Program, entitled, Using Peer Counselors to Address Tobacco among Mental Health Consumers. This project employs mental health peer counselors to deliver the message to smokers with mental illnesses that addressing tobacco is important and that they should seek treatment. This unique consumer-driven perspective can help to facilitate a different perspective for tobacco control within mental health systems that has not been previously tested. This project is expected to target populations of mental health consumers throughout the State of New Jersey and links three agencies in New Jersey through a strong partnering agreement: the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), the Mental Health Association of New Jersey (MHANJ), and the State of New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services (DMHS).

Jasjit Ahluwalia, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., of the University of Kansas Medical Center, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM). He will serve as Member Delegate from 2005-2008.

David Kalman, of the Boston University Department of Psychiatry, was awarded a NIDA R01 grant to investigate smoking cessation treatment with smokers in early alcohol recovery.

The University of Pennsylvania Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center has recently been awarded four new grants: Janet Audrain McGovern received a 5-year NIH grant entitled Longitudinal Patterns and Predictors of Smoking Behavior; Caryn Lerman was awarded a 4-year grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health to conduct a project entitled Improving Tobacco Dependence Treatment in Underserved Smokers; Andrew A. Strasser received a 2-year grant from the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation to conduct a study entitled Effect of Nicotine Level on Smoking Topography and Carbon Monoxide Exposure; Kevin Volpp was awarded a 4-year grant by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion to study Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation.

Belinda Borrelli, Associate Professor at the Brown Medical School Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, was recently awarded an R01 competing continuation grant entitled Motivating and Sustaining Cessation in the Parents of Kids with Asthma.