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Michael C. Fiore, M.D., M.P.H.
Director
Dr. Fiore is Director of the Center for Tobacco
Research and Intervention (CTRI) and a Professor of Medicine at
the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. At the University of
Wisconsin, he is clinically active, treating patients both in internal
medicine and for tobacco dependence. He is also the Principal Investigator
on a NIH-funded Transdisciplinary Tobacco-Use Research Center (TTURC)
grant, Relapse: Linking Science and Practice. He served
as Chair of the United States Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research Panel that produced the Clinical Practice Guideline on
Smoking Cessation (No. 18), and chairs the Public Health Service
Panel that recently published an updated Guideline, Treating
Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline.
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.
Dr. Fiore is a nationally recognized expert on
tobacco. 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).
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