News & Events
Research Agenda
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Transdisciplinary Tobacco Rounds
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Links to archives of rounds and CAN-ADAPTT Newsletters.
RNAO National Nursing Best Practice Smoking Cessation Initiative 2010-2011: Call for Proposals to become a project site
The RNAO is currently looking for organizations/agencies that deliver public health services to become Project Sites for the new National Nursing Best Practice Smoking Cessation Initiative. Both French-speaking and English-speaking sites are needed.
Two chapters of CAN-ADAPTT’s guideline version 2.0 have now been launched!
* Click here to access the Specific Populations: Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women section
* Click here to access the Specific Populations: Youth section
We invite your feedback on these sections via our discussion board (click here for pregnancy and here for youth) - please comment on the applicability and usability of these sections, suggest additional tools and resources, and help to identify any gaps in knowledge.
RESEARCH AGENDA
CAN-ADAPTT has now posted the June 9, 2010 version of the Practice-Informed Research Agenda. Click here for more information, to review the research agenda and provide feedback.
TRANSDISCIPLINARY TOBACCO ROUNDS
*Rounds will not be held over the summer months and will resume in September 2010*
Transdisciplinary Tobacco Rounds at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto. If you would like to request a copy of past TTR presentations or audio recordings, please feel free to contact Stephanie Elliott at stephanie_elliott@camh.net or (416) 535-8501 ext.7427.
ARCHIVES
Transdisciplinary Tobacco Rounds
February 2010: Martin Stampfli, PhD: “How cigarette smoke skews immune responses to promote infection.” Request a copy of the slides.
April 2010: Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD, Fang Liu, PhD, and Maryka Quik, PhD: "Neuroscience and Tobacco" symposium. Click here for a brief overview. On a similar topic of how genetics influences a smoker's addiction, read this Toronto Star article, in which Dr. Peter Selby, the Director of CAN-ADAPTT, and Dr. Rachel Tyndale, a neuroscience researcher at CAMH, discuss their work.
June 2010: Dr. Milan Khara MBChB, CCFP, cert. ASAM: “Smoking Cessation in Patients with Substance Use Disorders: The Vancouver Coastal Health Tobacco Dependence Clinic”. Request a copy of the slides.
OTRU Rounds: Dr. Stanton Glantz, Ph.D: “Current Tobacco Industry Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control”. Click here to view the PowerPoint presentation or here for a brief overview of the presentation.
UPCOMING EVENTS
CAN-ADAPTT will be appearing at the following upcoming events/conferences:
* Aug. 25-28, 2010: Chicago, IL.
* Dr. Peter Selby will be presenting "Developing dynamic tobacco control guidelines in Canada". Click here to view the online abstract.
* Workshop (co-presented with Victoria Leck):“Using clinical practice guidelines for tobacco cessation in dental settings”.
CAN-ADAPTT's AGM
* October 1st, 2010, Ottawa, ON
* Click here for more inforamtion
Family Medicine Forum
* Oct. 14-16, 2010: Vancouver, BC.
* Dr. Peter Selby will be presenting "Canadian practice-informed and evidence-based smoking cessation guidlines" and "Implementing Smoking Cessation Guidelines in Clinical Practice".
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