Tag: smoking cessation

Pediatric Acute Care Graduate Brings Awareness to Smoking Cessation

Written by Jackie Denton

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Clinical CareEducationResearch

Jamila Smith-Young graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with a degree in microbiology and began her career doing asthma research before interning with the pulmonary unit at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Eight years later, through a quality improvement project, she is changing the way the pulmonary division interacts with patients whose parents smoke.… Read More

Study Led by UTHSC’s Karen C. Johnson, MD, Published in Obesity Journal

Written by Peggy Reisser

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Research

The TARGIT study led by Karen Johnson, MD, MPH, Endowed Professor of Women’s Health in the UTHSC Department of Preventive Medicine, is published as an Editor’s Choice in the October issue of Obesity Journal. The journal is a publication of the Obesity Society, a scientific society dedicated to the study of obesity and its treatment.… Read More