Duke – Associate Professor at Duke School of Nursing; Associate Director of the National Clinical Scholars Program; Co-Director of Duke’s CTSI Special Populations Core
Addictions Research – developing and testing innovative tobacco cessation interventions
First text-based smokeless tobacco cessation intervention to ever be tested in a randomized controlled trial; informs smokeless tobacco legislative, funding, and public health matters; resulted in funding for NIH National Cancer Institute to test the intervention
To
advance excellence in nursing care for the prevention and treatment of
addictions for diverse populations across all practice setting through
advocacy, collaboration, education, research and policy development.