Visiting Lectureships Program

The Indiana AAP Chapter will host a meeting that will focus on the effects of SHS on children, specifically on the epigenetics of this exposure, as well as on addressing broader child tobacco control in clinical settings. Collaborative partners and participants will include residency programs, two Indiana Children’s Hospitals, the State Health Commissioner, the Marion County Health Commissioner and the Tobacco Free Indiana Coalition.

This event disseminated research related to interventions targeting the implementation of smoke-free home policies among low income households and disseminated research related to interventions targeting youth smoking prevention and cessation. This event also served to engage local researchers and practitioners in dialogue and collaboration related to research, dissemination, and translation of research findings into practice.

During this Visiting Lectureship, focus will be to integrate tobacco intervention discussions into pediatric curriculum and training for pediatric residents, new nursing graduates and other allied health professionals. Efforts will also center on increasing the number of referrals made by healthcare providers to the TN Quitline and educating local organizations and community groups about policy opportunities to reduce tobacco use and exposure.

The overall goal of the program is to improve the clinical skills and ease of practice for pediatric residents and practicing physicians to assess for and assist with household tobacco smoke exposure. An additional goal is to integrate tobacco cessation curriculum into the pediatric residency program. The intent is to normalize the discussion of tobacco exposure as a core component of pediatric residency training, so that residents are comfortable in all aspects of assessment and management.

The goal of this conference, titled 'Smoking Cessation for Parents by Pediatricians', was to convince pediatricians to intervene proactively in tobacco cessation of parents who smoke-- including prescribing nicotine-replacement therapies. This event also included a review of the epidemiology of tobacco smoke exposure among children and a role play workshop to train community pediatricians in motivational interviewing.

This event will include presentations at the Chapter's annual CME conference, as well as lectures for pediatric residents at nearby organizations. The goals of the proposed program are to educate the various groups in the state of Virginia on management of homes where children are exposed to smoking, smoking cessation for teens and families, understanding the health and educational effects of second and thirdhand smoke, and understanding how to advocate for tobacco control in the office and community.

The goal of this program was to increase pediatric resident and faculty member knowledge about the prevalence of exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) and to teach them skills necessary to intervene at the point of service to reduce SHS exposure among their patients and families. Counseling techniques and role playing were utilized during this event, and the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure (CEASE) program was drawn upon to help put these principles into every day clinical practice.

Goals of this program were to review epidemiology of secondhand smoke exposure in children; present a practice-based intervention for pediatric providers to assist caregivers to minimize secondhand smoke exposure in children; discuss treatment of adolescent smokers; and encourage advocacy regarding tobacco exposure in Colorado and globally.

The goal of this program was to mobilize the community's pediatricians, interested school staff, state health officials, medical students and residents to implement the Academy's recommendations for smoking prevention and treatment. This was accomplished through a series of lectures designed to provide the most up-to-date education and tools that can be used by healthcare providers in practice, including a special lecture planned for obstetricians.

This event provided opportunities to address tobacco use with patients, families, and caregivers in the clinical setting through the Tobacco-Free Mississippi: Engaging Mississippi's Pediatricians project. This visit also helped to increase incorporation of the US Public Health Service Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence into everyday practice, and to increase the number of referrals to the state quitline.

This event helped to incorporate tobacco control as part of patient education during clinical encounters and incorporated the Ask, Advise, Refer strategy. Advocacy efforts around tobacco-free policies at medical care facilities (such as Federally Qualified Health Centers, private pediatricians' offices, and area health departments) were also addressed.

During this event, current principles of tobacco smoke exposure and associated health consequences, as well as potential cost-effective, culturally-appropriate interventions were discussed. Opportunities for pediatric providers to engage in pediatric tobacco control research and advocacy were also explored.

This event focused on effective means for the integration of tobacco use prevention and treatment into clinical practice to meet new quality improvement measures. The role pediatricians play in tobacco prevention, particularly with adolescents and their families, was also discussed.

The importance of being an advocate for youth smoking prevention and cessation, and how to become effective in doing so was a major focal point of this event. Promotion of smoke-free environments and cost in dollars and life as a result of tobacco use was also discussed.

This event's focus was on policy initiatives for second and thirdhand smoke, including in tribal communities. Pediatric tobacco control research collaborations and how to further tobacco control advocacy through the practice, community, and the state AAP Chapter were also covered.

This meeting provided an extensive educational program for pediatric faculty, residents, and other professionals to provide in-depth knowledge about control of secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco marketing to youth. This event further provided an opportunity to expand the scope of awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke exposure through the UNM Tele-Health program to pediatric health clinicians in the state.

This award built on a county-wide meeting through a 2008 Visiting Lectureship that focused on the CEASE program, created by Dr. Jonathan Winickoff. SUNY Stony Brook pediatric faculty and trainees utilized this second visit to provide follow-through support for ideas to translate into action. At this visit, members of all pediatric departments, the Department of Preventive Medicine, and School of Public Health were in attendance to learn about and integrate already existing initiatives into their practice.

The TPCP, in partnership with Arkansas Children's Hospital and the University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences, provided pediatric trainees as well as academic and community health pediatricians with an opportunity to learn about children and tobacco smoke exposure. This event aimed to improve the clinical skills of pediatricians in Arkansas and to enhance their ability to deliver tobacco control interventions in their respective communities.

The PASS program held a symposium to increase awareness and unify tobacco advocacy and policy efforts. The goals of the PASS symposium were to: 1) increase awareness of tobacco disparities and policy shortcomings; 2) facilitate ongoing discourse between community, public health, and medical anti-tobacco stake holders, and; 3) generate strategic, unified approaches for advocacy efforts influencing tobacco policy in key areas.

This project was aimed at implementing a comprehensive, national initiative in the Republic of Moldova to train physicians in effective methods to reduce children exposure to secondhand smoke through parental smoking cessation. Training activities focused on increasing clinician awareness of the impact of tobacco smoke exposure on children, and on promoting and reinforcing the development of tobacco control curricula at academic institutions.

The Medical College of Georgia's "Building Collaborations Among Academic and Community Pediatricians to Promote Tobacco-Free Environments for Children" program received this award to foster tobacco control collaborations. This Visiting Lectureship was especially helpful for academic pediatric faculty, residents, trainees, and students; as well as local health departments and community pediatricians.

Oklahoma has a high rate of tobacco use in pregnant women (21%) with an overall use of 28%. Cessation counseling is low, as noted by a survey of medical students, who requested training in cessation counseling. This visiting lectureship meeting, which took place in April, trained students in effective counseling of patients who are interested in quitting by using a competency-based model.

This visiting lectureship provided pediatricians, residents, and child advocates in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties with an opportunity to interact with a pediatric tobacco expert and learn how to effectively integrate tobacco and secondhand smoke interventions, as well as advocacy into pediatric clinical settings.

The meeting, the first international visiting lectureship funded by the Richmond Center, took place in February. Training activities focused on increasing clinicians' awareness of the impact of tobacco smoke exposure on children, and on promoting and reinforcing the development of tobacco control curricula in schools and pediatric training programs. The program also promoted communication about smoke exposure prevention between clinicians, health organizations, governmental organizations, and civic organizations.

Birmingham News article about the Visiting Lectureship

This meeting focused on training child health care professionals in effective counseling in tobacco control and provided strategies for clinicians to promote tobacco-use control and tobacco smoke exposure reduction based on best practices. The meeting aimed to strengthen the collaboration among the Alabama AAP Chapter, Jefferson County Department of Public Health, Children's Hospital of Alabama and the University of Alabama pediatric residency program in tobacco prevention programs.

This meeting, which took place in June, provided instruction to community physicians, residents, medical students, and attending physicians on how to address health concerns related to secondhand smoke exposure with patient caretakers and on how to follow up with the caretaker's cessation progress. Information about available community cessation resources and programs was also provided.

This visiting lectureship, which took place in September, aimed to help revive the focus on children in tobacco control in Arkansas in order to reduce secondhand tobacco smoke exposure of children and prevent youth tobacco use onset. Meeting activities included emphasis on improving education about tobacco control and advocacy and increasing the awareness of the impact of brief interventions in pediatric settings.

This visiting lectureship, which took place in May, aimed to raise awareness of secondhand smoke as a threat to children's health, to help build clinicians' skills in addressing tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure among patients, and to advance collaboration between policymakers, coalitions addressing smoke-free air, and health care providers regarding smoke-free policies.

This meeting, which took place in November, aimed to help pediatric residents and community clinicians gain confidence and knowledge in addressing secondhand smoke exposure and smoking cessation in clinical settings. The program provided an education session along with clinician training. School, community, and government officials were involved, and media coverage was used to spread the word about this topic.

The aims of this visiting lectureship meeting, which took place in January 2008, were to increase awareness of children's tobacco exposure, develop a curriculum for medical students and residents on tobacco prevention, and improve clinicians' skills in tobacco control and cessation. A plan to integrate tobacco counseling and intervention into the curriculum for medical students and pediatric residents in nearby medical schools was also addressed.

When pediatric residents doubled the rate of addressing tobacco after the meeting, Dr. Anderson was inspired to collaborate with Dr. Best and the Richmond Center to create a CD-ROM "Tobacco Control Curriculum and Advocacy for Pediatric Residency Programs" which was mailed to pediatric residency Program Directors nationwide in October, 2008.

This meeting, which took place in September 2008, aimed to educate residents and staff about the dangers of secondhand smoke exposure and the most effective techniques for counseling parents in clinical settings regarding smoking cessation and secondhand smoke harm reduction. AAP Uniformed Services Chapter West, AAP District 3 California, and three local teaching institutions were involved in the training as well as a number of community pediatricians.

This visiting lectureship, which took place in September 2008, aimed to provide education and training to pediatric resident and community clinicians to improve their confidence and knowledge about approaching secondhand smoke exposure and smoking cessation. The program also provided information and the consistent message concerning smoking cessation and secondhand smoke exposure to other agencies in the city that serve children.

This meeting took place in April, 2008. Attendees learned how to describe public health impacts of smoking and secondhand smoke exposure in children and adolescents through large group lectures and workshop discussion. Workshops were conducted to boost provider self-efficacy in delivery of tobacco control messages and to increase cessation planning for smoking mothers, caretakers, adolescents, and children.