Expert on Smoking Is Fall’s First President’s Visiting Scholar
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 26, 2003
Joe Wills
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Expert on Smoking Is Fall’s First President’s Visiting Scholar
Elbert D. Glover, an internationally recognized authority on smoking cessation and tobacco addiction, will be California State University, Chico’s first President’s Visiting Scholar for the 2003-04 academic year.
Glover is director of the Addiction and Psychiatric Medicine Research Center and professor in the Departments of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the School of Medicine, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University.
Glover will give a talk Wednesday, Sept. 10, in the BMU Auditorium at 7 p.m. titled “Tobacco Research Interventions: From Primary Prevention to Treatment.” On Thursday, Sept. 11, he will give a talk in the BMU Auditorium at 3 p.m. titled “The Nicotine Addicted Person.” Both lectures are free and open to the public.
Glover’s research has been published in numerous publications, including New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health and Modern Medicine. He has been featured in many print publications and media programs, including USA Today, Reader’s Digest, Time, Newsweek, 20/20, the Charlie Rose Show, Good Morning America and CBS Morning News.
Glover was one of 28 scientists selected to write the 1994 Surgeon General’s “Report on Tobacco and Youth.” He has been selected as the American Association Health Education Scholar for 2003, which is given annually to the top scholar in the health education field.
Along with serving on the editorial boards of 20 health journals, including the American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of Health Education, Glover is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Health Behavior and founder of the American Academy of Health Behavior.
Glover’s particular research interest concerns cessation aids for individuals interested in quitting smoking. He is the only researcher in the world to have conducted clinical trials with six different nicotine pharmacologic adjuncts, including nicotine gum, transdermal patches and nasal sprays.
The President’s Visiting Scholar program is sponsored by the CSU, Chico Office of the President. Glover’s lectures also were made possible by support from the Department of Health and Community Services and AS Recycling.
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