Working Across Borders: A Collaboration Between Polish and US Cessation Experts

Dr. Melissa Little, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and a member in cancer control and population health research in the Cancer Center at the University of Virginia, will present her work developing, QuitAid, a pharmacist-delivered tobacco cessation intervention based on a medication therapy management approach to reduce tobacco use disparities in high-risk communities. Dr. Pawel Koczkodaj, Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of Cancer Epidemiology and Primary Prevention Department at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Poland, will present a study which sought to examine facilitators and barriers to translating the QuitAid intervention, a pharmacy-delivered smoking cessation program developed in the United States, in Poland. Jennifer Peregoy, Tobacco Treatment Specialist at University of Virginia’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Magdalena Cedzyńska, psychologist, psychotherapist, senior researcher, and Director of Smoking Cessation Service at the National Research Institute of Oncology in Poland, will discuss how UVA’s Tobacco Treatment Program guides the National Research Institute of Oncology in Poland to develop more cessation resources.

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