Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Interventions for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
160E Commonwealth Honors College, UMass Amherst

Dr. Vidrine will give a brief overview of the adverse health effects associated with cigarette smoking among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH). He will then provide examples (ranging from early phase pilots to multi-site randomized controlled trials) from his research program, which focuses on developing, evaluating, and implementing mobile treatments for PLWH and other socioeconomically disadvantaged populations.


Damon J. Vidrine, DrPH serves as a Program Leader for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Stephenson Cancer Center and the Director of Intervention Research for the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center. In addition, he is a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine. Dr. Vidrine’s research program is focused on tobacco use in special and underserved populations, including community-based low socioeconomic status populations, safety net clinic-based populations, people living with HIV, and cancer patients. 

The Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture series brings internationally recognized speakers with expertise in family research to campus each year. The lecture series began in 1999 through an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson. These events are free and open to the puiblic, and is cosponsored by the College of Natural Sciences, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Engagement. 

Learn more at www.umass.edu/family.