Media Advisory: UCSF Hosts Symposium on Tobacco Treatment
WHAT: To celebrate the launch of UCSF’s Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center, UCSF is holding an educational symposium featuring new research on tobacco cessation treatment and tobacco research. Lunch will be provided.
The Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center provides stop smoking classes and relapse prevention support groups that are held at the UCSF Mt. Zion campus. The program is named after San Francisco resident Jeanne Fontana, who provided a $2.3 million gift to the center in 2010 to support its cessation classes.
WHEN: Friday, April 27, noon to 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: UCSF – Cole Hall, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco
WHO: The featured speakers and their topics include:
- “Treating Tobacco Dependence: We Can Do Better’’ Steve Schroeder, MD, director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center and Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at UCSF;
- “Strategies for Treating Hospitalized Smokers’’ Nancy Rigotti, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School;
- “Pharmacotherapy for Special Populations: Cardiac and Pregnant Smokers’’ Neal Benowitz, MD, professor in the departments of medicine, biopharmaceutical sciences, psychiatry, and clinical pharmacy at UCSF.
CONTACT: Elizabeth Fernandez, 415-502-6397; or Suzanne Harris, 415-885-7895.
For more information, visit www.ucsfhealth.org/tobaccotreatment