Welcome! Today is Saturday, March 13, 2010

MDQuit's 4th Annual Best Practices Conference

We would like to thank all of the presenters and attendees who made our conference a great event!  A special thanks to Joan Stine, Director of the Center for Health Promotion, Education, & Tobacco Use Prevention and Dawn Berkowitz, Chief, Division of Federal and Special Tobacco Control Initiatives for their updates on DHMH and upcoming budget issues and policies. 

We would also like to thank MDQuit's Advisory Board Member, Dr. Georgia Stevens, for sharing information on how to obtain a FREE National Toolkit providing low cost, or no cost cessation resources from the University of California, San Francisco's Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/).  We would also like to thank Dale Kane, Chair of Nicotine Anonymous Mid Atlantic Region and her colleagues for sharing information on Nicotine Anonymous (www.nicamar.homestead.com). 

Click here for the agenda of the conference.

To download pdf versions of each of the Presenter's slides, click on underlined title of their presentation.

Morning Session (Keynote Addresses)  

Dr. Carlo DiClemente
Email: diclemen@umbc.edu
     


Keynote Address: Do You Know Where Your Smokers Are: Who They Are and What They are Doing?


Ms. Kathleen Hoke Dachille
Email: KDachille@law.umaryland.edu


Keynote Address: Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Tobacco Products


Dr. Jack Henningfield
Email:
jhenning@pinneyassociates.com


Keynote Address: Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems:  Public Health & Regulatory Challenges
 



Afternoon Sessions:

Motivational Enhancement Techniques I & II

Miranda Garay, M.A., Onna Van Orden & Elena Welsh, M.A.
Email: miranda5@umbc.edu & onnav1@umbc.edu 
& elenaw1@umbc.edu


Motivational Enhancement Session I Slides 

Motivational Enhancement Session II Slides 


Maximizing What You Can Do with Fewer Resources


Dr. Carlo DiClemente
Email:
diclemen@umbc.edu

Slides from Maxizimizing Session


Summary of Brainstorming Session


Hot Topics in Tobacco

Onna Van Orden, Kathleen Dachille, Dr. Carlo DiClemente, Dr. Janine Delahanty, & Meredith Holmgren 
Email:onna
v1@umbc.edu , KDachille@law.umaryland.edu , diclemen@umbc.edu , delahan1@umbc.edu  & meredith@umbc.edu 

Slides from Hot Topics Session