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Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement program

The 3rd Annual Invitational Symposium for Research to Inform Tobacco Control

Most symposium presentations and team activity reports are now available for download.

Day 1:

Plenary Session 1: Dr. Tony George - Clearing the Air: Translating the science of nicotine and tobacco towards more effective smoking cessation treatments

Session 1: Cutting Edge Research
Joanna Cohen – Latest news in tobacco policy research
Paul Clarke – Update on recent animal studies relevant to tobacco use
Bernard Le Foll – Control of reinforcing effects of nicotine by associated environmental stimuli (Presentation not available)
Rachel Tyndale – Highlights from pharmacogenetics

Session 2: Examining our Infrastructure
Dr. Richard Brière – Overview of CIHR research funding for tobacco use and nicotine addiction
Paul McDonald – A (re) vision for tobacco control research in 2010
Murray Kaiserman – Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative: Past, present and future
Peter Selby & Roberta Ferrence – Increasing Capacity in Tobacco Research:  The Role of Strategic Training Programs

Session 3: Getting Research into Policy
Cathy Sabiston – The Federal Tobacco Strategy: Setting the Agenda through Evidence-based Policy
Michele Tremblay – Health Professionals and their Smoking Cessation Counselling
Catherine Sabiston – School policies and youth smoking
Dave Hammond – Getting Research into Policy (and Policy into Research)

Session 4: Collaborative Team Building Preparation
Cameron Norman – Social Network Analysis
Pam Kaufman –Working as a Multidisciplinary Team

Day 2:

Plenary Session 2:  Dr. John Frank - Smoking and the Prevention Paradox of Geoffrey Rose – What, if Anything, is the Connection?

Session 5: Innovation in Tobacco Control 
Joy Johnson – Tobacco control in the context of severe and persistent mental illness: The CACTUS Project
Guy Faulkner – Exercise in the management of cravings and withdrawal symptoms
Sylvia Kairouz – Concurrence of smoking and other addictive behaviours: is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?

Session 6: Looking to our Roots: I.C.E. Seed Grant presentations
Anne Lavack – Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: The Tobacco Industry’s Challenge of Canada’s Tobacco Act
Lynne Baillie, Lea Mutch – Building an Aboriginal Community of Practice
Sean Barrett – Breaking the “ICE”: Building a Collaborative Network of Tobacco Researchers in Nova Scotia
Stephanie Alexander, Catherine Maule, Blake Poland – The Social Context of Smoking: Building a web presence
Joan Bottorf – Messages for Young Women about Tobacco Exposure and Breast Cancer
Annette Schultz – Enhancing Canadian health professionals' role in tobacco control: Vision and actions over the last year

Session 7: Team Activity

Closing Plenary: Dr. Roy Cameron - The Impact Imperative: Is Discovery Enough?

You can download presentations made at the 2nd Annual Invitational Symposium (November 2005) by visiting the Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative.