Webinars

SCLC's webinar series is integral to the technical assistance provided by the SCLC. Nationally recognized smoking cessation experts offer the latest information related to smoking cessation (including effective interventions) for the general and the behavioral health populations.

The Goals of SCLC’s Webinar Series:

  • Provide training and technical assistance to raise awareness of the many benefits smoking cessation efforts and to increase understanding of effective smoking cessation strategies.
  • Implement or enhance existing tobacco cessation services using evidence-based practices.
  • Ensure that consumers and staff have access to smoking cessation services and support to promote health and wellness.
  • Establish partnerships between behavioral health and nicotine cessation organizations to increase available tobacco cessation resources in communities. 

SCLC has over 150 webinars covering the latest topics on tobacco addiction and recovery

 

Upcoming Webinars

Building a System That Helped 300,000 People Quit Smoking

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Speakers

Renee Fogelberg, MD, FACOG, DiploABOM, NCMP

Clinical Lead Tobacco Cessation, Northern California, Kaiser Permanente

Dr Renee Fogelberg is dual board-certified as an Ob/Gyn and obesity medicine physician who has practiced at Kaiser Permanente Northern California for the last 25 years. She started her career in the East Bay at the KP Richmond Medical Center in 1999 and now works at our San Rafael location.  

She received her medical training at Columbia University in New Your City and did her residency training at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.

She has been involved in patient education for over 15 years and became the Northern California Clinical Lead for tobacco cessation in 2011.

In partnership with the health education teams, quality leads as well as primary and sub-specialty physicians she has been successful in designing and implementing a variety of a tobacco cessation workflows which has led to over 300,000 quitters driving to an all-time low prevalence of <6%.

Webinar Objectives:

Kaiser Permanente Northern California cut smoking rates from 8.6% to 5.8% over 9 years—saving an estimated 3 million life-years. How? By building one of the largest, most effective tobacco treatment systems in U.S. healthcare.  Whether you're in a big health system or a small clinic or county health department, this session will leave you with practical, low-barrier strategies you can start applying right away.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain how to leverage strategic “teachable moments” where quit rates are statistically higher 
  2. Describe key elements in integrating this work into the electronic medical record EMR
  3. Explain how to design and build a new tobacco cessation workflow

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