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Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine & Physiology Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine & Physiology

STAR Program Curriculum

Core Components

  • Foundations in Research
  • Foundations in Community Advocacy
  • History and Important Background
  • Ongoing guidance and mentorship from our Leadership team
  • Interactive assignments that help put learned skills into practice
  • Year-Long Tobacco Research Project
  • Year-Long Tobacco Advocacy Project
  • Final Presentation

Past Speakers 

Foundations in Research

  Speaker

  Topic

  Dr. John Balmes

  Who can be a researcher? Designing a research question 

  Dr. Mark Fuster

  What is bias? How do you design a study?

  Dr. Atul Malhotra

  Write everything down – Why documentation in research is critical

  Dr. Alexia Perryman

  How to present your research goals and final conclusions

  Howard Chang, Caitlyn Truong, and Samvel Gaboyan

  Data organization and Data presentation 

  Howard Chang and Dr. Atul Malhotra

  Making a figure set for a manuscript

  Dr. Le Xu

  Ethics in research

  Dr. Alexia Perryman

  How to write an abstract

Dr. Kristen Emory

  Intro to developing surveys and using Qualtrics

 

Foundations in Community Advocacy 

  Speaker

  Topic

  Dr. Tim Morris

  What is advocacy?

  Dr. Jacob Bailey

  Planning a community advocacy project

  Gary Ewart

  Current tobacco advocacy actions and tactics

  Dr. Enid Neptune

  Dr. Neptune’s road to tobacco advocacy, tobacco research and tobacco policy work

  Dr. Philippe Montgrain

  Debrief ALA Lung Force Walk and Discuss ideas for events that may work for your own communities

  Dr. Jacob Bailey

  

   Foundations of health equity in pulmonary care, addressing racial, ethnic, income, and gender disparities

  Dr. Jacob Bailey

   Fundamentals of qualitative research methods

  Dr. Karen Beard

  Smoking cessation and Dr. Beard's road to becoming a certified tobacco treatment specialist

  Dr. Mary Rice

  Advocacy at the national level 

  Dr. Tim Morris

  How to engage with communities that are not your own

 

History and Important Background

  Speaker

  Topic

  Dr. Kristen Emory

  Unethical events in research

  Dr. Laura Crotty Alexander

  Background on JUUL and current e-cigarette policies

  Dr. Mark Myers

  Treating tobacco use and dependence

  Dr. Frank Leone

  Tobacco policy at the national level

  Dr. Kristen Emory

  How and why marginalized populations were targeted by the tobacco industry

  Dr. Laura Crotty Alexander and Dr. Kristen Emory

  Analysis of tobacco ads and tobacco control ads

  Dr. Stanton Glantz

  History of the tobacco control movement and His experience in anti-tobacco advocacy