Associate Professor of
Health Policy and Management
I have just begun
a new position at the Fay W. Boozman College of
Public Health at the University of Arkansas and
at the Department of Health and Human Services
for the state of Arkansas as the Tobacco Control
Branch Chief. Previously I was the Head of the
Group for Tobacco and Cancer at the
International Agency for Research on Cancer in
Lyon, France.
My background consists of training at Memorial
Sloan Kettering in Surgical Oncology and the
University of Toronto in Thoracic and Cardiac
Surgery (U.S. Board Certified), and am also U.S.
Board Certified in General Surgery. I then
practiced clinical thoracic surgical oncology at
Washington University (St. Louis, MO) and at Fox
Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, PA).
Subsequently, I was the Medical Director for
Research and Development for Smoking Control at
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. While at
GSK, I was involved with global tobacco control
issues. Part of my responsibilities included
design and completion of phase I through IV
trials, in addition to close collaboration with
the marketing teams.
In 2002-2003 I completed a Master in Public
Administration at the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University. My continued
academic interests involve the biologic
initiation of tobacco related cancers, the
diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, nicotine
addiction particularly as it affects smoking
cessation, the susceptibility of women to lung
cancer and the global issues of tobacco control.