UW tobacco researcher elected to prestigious medical group

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A UW-Madison professor who founded one of the leading research centers on tobacco and its effect on health has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine. Dr. Michael Fiore, professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of 70 new members of the Institute of Medicine. The election was announced Monday at the institute's 42nd annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

The UW-Madison news service said in a news release that Fiore founded the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention 20 years ago to find more effective ways to help tobacco users quit. Since then, according to UW, the center has helped more than 200,000 Wisconsin smokers quit smoking; helped drive systematic changes in how tobacco use is confronted by physicians, insurers and health care systems; took in more than $100 million in grants; and published more than 300 research articles.

In 2000 Fiore chaired a panel that produced the standards used by health care providers trying to help patients stop using tobacco, and in 2005 he was asked by the U.S. Justice Department to develop a $130 billion, 25-year plan to help 33 million smokers quit. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences and is called on to provide independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on health issues.