Dr. Dana Christofferson is the Deputy Director of the Tobacco Use Treatment National Program Office for the VA Health Care System. Dana is responsible for developing policy, managing national initiatives, including VA’s quitline and text message programs, and overseeing program evaluation efforts in the VA health care system to provide Veterans with high quality, evidence-based, tobacco use treatment.

Katherine “Katie” Stone is a Senior Program Manager in the Center for Advancing Healthy Communities. Katie provides program management to the five-year cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) entitled, National Networks Driving Action: Preventing Tobacco and Cancer-Related Health Disparities by Building Equitable Communities.

Alex currently serves as the Director of Practice Improvement and Consulting for the National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco & Cancer Control as part of the parent organization the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Based in Houston, Texas, Alex leads a multifaceted array of initiatives focused on eliminating tobacco and cancer related disparities in the mental health population.

As the program manager for the Veteran Commercial Tobacco Cessation Program at the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs, Paul is spearheading innovative efforts to expand access to evidence-based, standard of care, cessation treatment for the state's 500,000 plus veterans.