Improving Tobacco Cessation: CMS Guidance and State Strategies

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. Kroon received her Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan and then completed two years of residency at UCSF in pharmacy practice and hospital pharmacy administration. She has been a member of the UCSF faculty since 1996. She practices at the UCSF Health Diabetes Teaching Center, where she cares for people with diabetes. Dr. Kroon is the Co-Director of the UCSF Health Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center where she has been a smoking cessation provider for over 20 years. Her current research interests include evaluating the impact of pharmacist provider status and expanded scope of practice, diabetes therapeutics, tobacco cessation, and innovative pharmacy practice models.

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. Before joining CMS, Deirdra worked on multi-stakeholder collaborations to address social determinants of health and other aspects of community wellbeing. Deirdra holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors from the University of Pennsylvania.

Joyce Swetlick has served as the Director of Tobacco Cessation with the NC Public Health Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch for the last fifteen years. Her responsibilities with the Branch include building infrastructure to advance evidence-based tobacco cessation through NC providers, public and private health plans/payers, employers, and community groups and managing the NC Tobacco Use Quitline - QuitlineNC. Before moving to North Carolina, Joyce was a Program Project Manager for the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation, where she facilitated the launch of the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line and oversaw 12 community projects. Earlier in her career, she served as a health educator in Northern Kentucky, was the first tobacco prevention coordinator in the state, and developed tobacco use prevention programs for the KY Department of Education. Joyce holds a Master’s in Public Health- Health Behavior and Education from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is one of six directors of the nationally accredited Duke-UNC Tobacco Treatment Specialist Credentialing Program.

Joyce has been working in Tobacco Treatment, Prevention, and Control for 33 years.

Ivana Thompson earned her Pharm.D. degree from University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy and has been practicing in California for over 20 years. She has worked in  community and outpatient pharmacies, then as a consultant pharmacist for Medi-Cal DUR. Ivana took a leadership position managing Medicaid pharmacy operations with PBM overseeing 24+ Medicaid Managed Care plans from 20+ states.  She is currently the Chief of pharmacy Clinical Operations Section, at California Department of Healthcare Services, where she oversees Medi-Cal Rx, a statewide Medicaid pharmacy benefit, and is responsible for Medi-Cal DUR Program.