Smoking Research

Tobacco is highly addictive and dangerous. Besides lung cancer, smoking can also cause heart disease, stroke, cataracts, and, in pregnant women who smoke, it’s linked to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). One out of five Americans dies of tobacco-related disease, so it’s important to find ways to prevent tobacco use and help people quit.

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Publications

Competing risk bias to explain the inverse relationship between smoking and malignant melanoma.

New recommendation and coverage of low-dose computed tomography for lung cancer screening: uptake has increased but is still low.

Personalized hypertension management using patient-generated health data integrated with electronic health records (EMPOWER-H): six-month pre-post study.

Precision lifestyle medicine: a new frontier in the science of behavior change and population health.

Smoking-cessation interventions after lung cancer screening guideline change.

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Research Studies

Lung Cancer in Never Smokers: Incidence, Risk Factors and Molecular Characteristics in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Women

Strategies for Improving the Quality of Preventive Services in Primary Care

The Impact of Smoking, Comorbidities, and Race/Ethnicity on COVID-19 Infection and Disease Severity

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Sandra Wilson

Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Sandra Reitz Wilson, Ph.D., is Senior Scientist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Research Institute & Adjunct Stanford Clinical Professor of Medicine.

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