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The UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) is excited to announce our stellar lineup of featured speakers for our "It's About a Billion Lives " Symposium which will be held on Friday, January 29, 2021

  • Keynote Speaker, Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Retired), Founding Director, Center for Tobacco Control and Education, presents: "Half a century later it is still about social acceptability"
  • "Smoking and E-cigarette Use among San Francisco Priority Populations," Arturo Durazo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
  • "Smoking, Vaping and Acute Lung Injury," Michael Matthay, MD, Professor and Associate Director, Critical Care Medicine, UCSF, UCSF Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine
  • "In Tech We Trust?: Peer-generated information about vaping nicotine and cannabis in digital spaces," Meredith Meacham, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • "E-cigarette Policy and Social Media Discussions in China," Joanne Lyu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

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UCSF promotes the exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives, acknowledging that the views and opinions of our guest speakers on campus are their own and may not reflect the perspective of the University. We embrace free speech in the pursuit of greater understanding, consistent with our obligations as a public university under the First Amendment.