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Presentation: Physician and family involvement in promoting smoking cessation among Chinese Americans and Canadian patients
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Time: Friday Morning
Purpose: To provide an up-to-date epidemiology and risk factors of tobacco use of Chinese in North America. Present results of smoking cessation interventions studies to date and discuss the roles that physicians and family may play in promoting smoking cessation among Chinese American and Canadian patients.
Objectives:
Identify risk factors associated with tobacco use among Chinese Americans and Canadians
Describe key findings of recent smoking cessation intervention studies targeting Chinese in North American
Recognize the roles that health providers and family can play in promoting smoking cessation among Chinese American and Canadian patients
Associate Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF
Bio:
JANICE Y. TSOH, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is a licensed clinical psychologist who is specialized in behavioral medicine and health psychology. She is a bilingual and bicultural psychologist originally from Hong Kong, China, who is fluent in spoken (Cantonese, Mandarin) and written Chinese. She received her BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1990 and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 1995. She completed her clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center/VA Medical Center Consortium specializing in behavioral medicine. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer prevention at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and a fellowship in substance abuse treatment research at UCSF.
Dr. Tsoh’s current research focuses on nicotine dependence and depression, smoking cessation treatment in special populations, and health promotion in underserved Asian American communities. Dr. Tsoh has led or co-led seven smoking cessation clinical trials including the use of combining psychological and pharmacological treatment targeting smokers from both clinical settings and the community. She was a recipient of a 5-year K23 career development award funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to examine an individualized computer expert system intervention for smoking cessation targeting Chinese Americans. Dr. Tsoh has served as a principal investigator on three other studies targeting Chinese Americans, including a study on Smoking and Depression of Chinese and non-Chinese funded by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), an American Cancer Society funded national trial targeting Chinese smokers and their support persons, and another TRDRP-funded clinical trial that tested a scheduled smoking reduction protocol with brief nicotine replacement pharmacotherapy and telephone support for Chinese smokers in California. She has been a Research Director of the UCSF Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project (VCHPP) since 2007 and has been involved in conducting community-based health promotion intervention development and evaluation targeting the Vietnamese communities with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the State of California. She currently serves as a Regional Research Director for the NCI-funded Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART), a network in 5 cities with high Asian American population density.
In addition to conducting research and evaluation, Dr. Tsoh is a practicing clinical psychologist providing direct psychological treatment and evaluation services with a special interest in immigrant’s mental health. She is a core faculty in three pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training programs at UCSF. These programs include the Clinical Psychology Training Program, the NIDA Fellowship Training Program in Substance Abuse Treatment and Services Research, and the NIMH program of the Community Academic Research and Training Alliance. Since 2000, Dr. Tsoh also has been actively involved in clinical teaching providing both didactic training and supervision to predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees including undergraduates, students from the UCSF schools of medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, clinical psychology fellows and psychiatry residents in smoking cessation counseling, applying cognitive behavioral therapy approaches in the treatment of depression, stages of change principals and motivational interviewing techniques in behavioral modifications.