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| Dorothy K Hatsukami, Ph.D. |
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Dorothy Hatsukami, Ph.D. is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, and Director of the Tobacco Use Research Programs. She has conducted research in the areas of nicotine addiction and treatment of nicotine addiction, among a general population of adult smokers and adolescents. She has also conducted research in the area of smokeless tobacco. She is currently a Principal Investigator of one of the seven NIH funded Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC).
The research focus of this TTURC is on methods and understanding mechanism associated with reducing tobacco toxin exposure. She is a co-recipient of the Ove Ferno award for her research on tobacco dependence. Because of her expertise, she has served on a number of national committees including the National Advisory Council for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, the Interagency Committee for Smoking and Health, Drug Control Research, Data, and Evaluation Committee for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Institute of Medicine and was on the Scientific Board of Counselors for the Intramural Research Program of NIDA. She has served on many advisory panels for other United States federal, non-profit and international organizations. She is a past President of the Society on Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and a past President of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. |
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| Sharon Allen, M.D., Ph.D. |
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Sharon Allen, M.D, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Family Practice and Community Health, and the Curriculum Director for the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) at the University of Minnesota. She practices in the Women's Health Clinic and the Primary Care Clinic of the Fairview University Clinic system.
Dr. Allen completed a Masters of Science and Doctorate in Physiology at Pennsylvania State University and received her medical degree from the University of Rochester Medical School in Rochester, New York. Presently, Dr. Allen teaches multiple medical courses to medical and graduate students. She was also one of the principal developers and presenters of the "Smoking Cessation Workshop" which is conducted every eight weeks at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Part of Dr. Allen's responsibilities as the Curriculum Director for the TTURC, is to implement medical school curriculum on the subject of tobacco and nicotine exposure, and addiction.
Additionally, Dr. Allen provides routine smoking cessation training to health care professionals for the TTURC through the Community Outreach Core program. |
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| Marc Mooney, Ph.D. |
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Marc Mooney, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Mooney received his B.A. in psychology from Johns Hopkins University (Phi Beta Kappa). He completed his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Dr. Dorothy Hatsukami. He completed his clinical internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Texas, Houston. Before coming to the University of Minnesota, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Mooney is supported by a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Career Development award to advance his research in medications development for smoking cessation. His primary research goal is to create a program for smoking cessation pharmacotherapy development, particularly for complex smokers with psychiatric and substance abuse comorbidities. He is interested in the evaluation of combination or sequential pharmacotherapies as well as novel monotherapies. In conjunction with his program of medication development, he is interested in individual factors that influence medication treatment initiation and completion, including medication knowledge, attitudes, and expectancies. He is also interested in various topics in clinical trials methodology including medication compliance and blinding. He has served as a reviewer for numerous journals including Addiction, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Drug and Alcohol Review, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Behavior Therapy, Alcohol and Alcoholism, and Investigational Drugs database. He is an associate editor of the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. |
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| Paul Pentel, M.D. |
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Paul Pentel, M.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, and Director of the Clinical Therapeutics Program at Hennepin County Medical Center. Dr. Pentel also serves as the Training and Pilot Study Director for the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) at the University of Minnesota and is one of the Center's principal investigators in harm reduction due to tobacco exposure. Dr. Pentel received his medical degree from Stanford Medical School. His primary research interests are in toxicology, mechanisms of addiction, and development of treatment medications. He is board member of the Association for Nonsmokers, and is President of the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation. He served previously on the Research Advisory Committee for the Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco.
Dr. Pentel has served as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, Veterans Adminsitration, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and Luxemburg National Research Fund. He has been a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Poison Control and Prevention, and an advisor to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Vaccines and Depot Medications for Drug Addiction. He served previously on the editorial board for the Journal of Toxicology/Clinical Toxicology and as editor for the Internet Journal of Medical Toxicology. |
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| Joni Jensen, M.P.H. |
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Ms. Jensen coordinates the overall TTURC project, including administration of Dorothy Hatsukami's research projects and is responsible for regulatory oversight for the TTURC. She has worked in the tobacco research area for the past 17 years. |
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