The UW Carbone Cancer Center (UW-CCC) and UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) are coordinating the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) project, a national effort to help cancer centers implement systems to identify patients who smoke and help them quit. 

UW personnel involved in the effort include: 

• Betsy Rolland, PhD, MLIS, MPH, assistant director, UW-CCC, who is directing the C3I coordinating center.
• Rob Adsit, MEd , UW-CTRI outreach director, who is serving as an expert on electronic health records, workflow and systems change. Adsit will help implement comprehensive tobacco treatment at 22 cancer centers across the nation. 
• Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA is serving a senior scientist for C3I.
• Marika Rosenblum, UW-CTRI associate research specialist, is providing project support. and UW-CTRI Research Director Dr.
• Tim Baker, PhD, UW-CTRI research director, is providing additional scientific input.

The 22 funded cancer centers across the nation involved in the Moonshot initiative will be  refining electronic medical records and clinical workflows to ensure the systematic identification and documentation of smokers and the routine delivery of evidence-based tobacco cessation treatment services.

Additional focuses include identifying and overcoming barriers to providing tobacco treatment services, regardless of barrier origin (e.g., clinic, clinician, health-care system, or patient), championing the treatment of tobacco use as standard care, and creating ways to sustain tobacco treatment services in the future. 

Resources:

• "UW CTRI lends expertise to National Cancer Institute's 'Moonshot' tobacco initiative," UW-Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, December 4, 2017

Photo caption: A former smoker (on right, facing away from the camera) who received tobacco cessation help from the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention uses a handheld carbon monoxide monitor, which is used by researchers to measure smoking abstinence.  Dr. Michael Fiore (left), director of UW-CTRI, looks on. Photo credit: Department of Medicine/Clint Thayer