Expertise
Tobacco, Smokeless, tobacco, Cigarettes and Cigars, Adverse Effects, History, Tobacco Use Disorder, Smoking Cessation, Diagnosis, Drug Therapy, Epidemiology, In Special Population Groups, e.g. women Rehabilitation.
Tobacco-related research (conducted since 1981) specifically dealing with the use of NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) products; clinical effects of NRT on oral tissues; physician/dentist interventions to help patients quit using tobacco products; tobacco education programs and symposiums for health care providers; efficacy and safety of Zyban (buproprion HCL sustained release tablets) and other therapeutic substances as aids to smoking cessation in treatment.
  • preventive dentistry
  • motivation and persuasion
  • psychology
  • stress reduction and modification of lifestyle
  • environmental protection
  • clinical oral pathology
  • dental history
  • radiography
  • chemical dependency
  • addictionology
  • smokeless tobacco
  • cigarette smoking cessation
  • clinical effects of tobacco on oral and perioral tissues
Tobacco, Smokeless, tobacco, Cigarettes and Cigars, Adverse Effects, History, Tobacco Use Disorder, Smoking Cessation, Diagnosis, Drug Therapy, Epidemiology, In Special Population Groups, e.g. women Rehabilitation.
Communities
Biomedical Science, Applied Science
Degrees
MA, Ball State University Graduate School , Public Service, 1973
M.S.D. , Indiana University School of Dentistry, Oral Medicine, 1965
BS, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Dentistry, 1956
D.D.S. , University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Dentistry, 1956
DDS
MA
MSD
Keywords
tobacco smoking behavior pharmacotherapy epidemiology