Deirdra Stockmann, Ph.D., M.U.P. is the Director of the Division of Quality and Health Outcomes in the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Since joining CMS in 2012, Deirdra has worked with state Medicaid and CHIP agencies and their partners to improve health outcomes by improving access to and quality of health services for people enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP.
Dr. Lisa Kroon is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy at the University of California in San Francisco. She is also the Assistant Chief Pharmacy Office of Clinical Innovation, Education and Research at UCSF Health and oversees ambulatory pharmacy practice. Dr.
Stephanie Koenig is the Communications Specialist for the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) at the University of California, San Francisco. She is responsible for developing and implementing communication strategies and projects to effectively convey SCLC's messages to its target audiences. In addition, she serves as the Communications Specialist for UCSF's Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE).
Feel free to download our new fact sheet on Tobacco Use and Treatment for People Experiencing Homelessness.
Tobacco-related disparities in the justice-involved population represent a largely ignored health equity and human rights issue. Read this new paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that we co-authored with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry.
CDC and the American Lung Association released a new tobacco-related article today in the journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), “State Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Cessation Treatment and Barriers to Accessing Treatments – United States, 2018-2022”.
Among the highlights in the article:
From the American Lung Association
From the American Lung Association
