Part 1 - Envisioning a Tobacco Free Future
Welcome by Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH '87
Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Introduction by David Holtgrave, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Lecture by David Abrams, PhD
Cigarettes and E-cigarettes: A historical perspective and overview of the field
David Abrams, PhD
Dr. David Abrams earned his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology
from Rutgers University. He is Executive Director
of The Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy
Studies at Legacy, and a Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, Georgetown University Medical
Center and the University of Maryland. A clinical health
psychologist, he was Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and prior to that he
was Professor and founding Director of the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive
Medicine at Brown University Medical School. Dr. Abrams provides scientific
leadership in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention, with a focus
on tobacco control. Since the passage of the Tobacco Control Act of 2009, he
has focused on the new discipline of regulatory science to inform FDA's Center
for Tobacco Products. Dr. Abrams has published over 250 scholarly articles and
served as Principal or Co-investigator on 65 grants, including a National Cancer
Institute (NCI) Program Project award. He is lead author of The Tobacco Dependence
Treatment Handbook: A Guide to Best Practices, and a recipient of a
book-of-the-year award. He received the Joseph Cullen Memorial Award from
the American Society for Preventive Oncology for lifetime contributions to tobacco
control research. He has served as President of the Society for Behavioral
Medicine and is a recipient of its Distinguished Scientist and Mentorship awards.
He is lead author on a concluding chapter of the 2014 Fiftieth Anniversary Surgeon
General's Report on Tobacco and Health and received the research laureate
award from the American Academy of Health Behavior in March 2014.
