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Dana Best, MD, MPH, FAAP
Dana Best is the PI of the Dissemination of Best Practices and Measurement projects for the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence. She is on the faculty of The George Washington University School of Medicine and attends pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center, in Washington, DC. She is the Director of the Smoke Free Project, which supports national and local efforts to reduce tobacco use by and secondhand smoke exposure of children. Dr. Best is boarded in both pediatrics and preventive medicine and is a member of the AAP Committee on Environmental Health. |
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Mark Gottlieb, J.D.
Mark Gottlieb is the PI for the Legal and Regulatory Project for the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence. This project will synthesize and provide vital information for the development and implementation of new policies and laws to reduce children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in multiple settings. Mr. Gottlieb is the Executive Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. The Institute’s nine attorney’s conduct legal research and policy analysis around the intersection of law and public health. For the past 15 years, he has focused his research on legal approaches to reduce the harm caused by tobacco industry products. |
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Jonathan Klein, MD, MPH, FAAP
Jonathan Klein is the Director of the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence and the PI on the Center’s Building the Field project. Dr. Klein is an expert in adolescent medicine and child and adolescent health services research. His research addresses the organization of services, access and quality of care for youth, survey and health services methodology, and systems and individual clinician behavior change for tobacco control, and comprehensive adolescent preventive services. Dr. Klein is Associate Professor of Pediatrics, of Preventive and Community Medicine, and of Family Medicine, and is Acting Division Chief for Adolescent Medicine and Associate Chair for Community and Government Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester. |
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Robert McMillen, PhD
Robert McMillen is the PI of the Dataset project and the National Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control for the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence. The annual Social Climate Survey is a cooperative project with the Mississippi State Social Science Research Center and the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center. Dr. McMillen’s research applies computer-assisted telephone interview methods as well as Web- and school-based survey methods to measure the social climate surrounding health issues. His research has been supported by the CDC, The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, the ACS, North Mississippi Medical Center, and the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program. Dr. McMillen is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment with the Social Science Research Center and the Department of Psychology. |
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Susanne E. Tanski, MD, MPH, FAAP
Susanne Tanski is the PI of the Messaging project for the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence. Dr. Tanski is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and a practicing pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Working within the Cancer Risk Behaviors Group at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, her current research endeavors focus on visual media influences on adolescent smoking and drinking, and communication between pediatric clinicians and parents regarding secondhand smoke exposure of children. Previously, she has been involved in a number of epidemiologic studies examining parents' patterns of smoking and cessation attempts, parents' rules against smoking in homes and vehicles, and parents' attitudes towards pediatric practitioners' advice and assistance with quit attempts. |
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Jonathan P. Winickoff, MD, MPH, FAAP
Jonathan Winickoff is the Harvard site PI for the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence. Dr. Winickoff also serves as a Scientific Advisor to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program and as Chair of the AAP Tobacco Consortium. He is a practicing general pediatrician with training and research experience in health services research, clinical research, medical ethics, medical education, and biostatistics. In 2005, he was appointed Associate Fellowship Director, MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program. Within Partners Health Care, he is a member of the Tobacco Research and Treatment Center and serves on the Tobacco Control Taskforce as Co-chair of the Electronic Medical Record Subcommittee. He and his team have developed the program CEASE, the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, available nationally at www.ceasetobacco.org. |
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