Michael C. FioreProfessor

RESEARCH INTERESTS Dr. Fiore’s chief research and policy focus has been to develop strategies to prompt clinicians and health care systems to intervene with patients who use tobacco. As part of this effort, he spearheaded the concept of expanding the vital signs to include tobacco use status. Starting in 1999, along with UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Timothy Baker, Fiore has led five consecutive five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center Grants. The most recent from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), known as Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health 2 (BREATHE 2), currently runs from 2019 to 2024. Fiore is also an inaugural recipient of an NCI Outstanding Investigator R35 seven-year grant titled Transforming the Treatment of Tobacco Use in Health Care: Seizing the Potential of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to Deliver Comprehensive Chronic Care Treatment for Smoking.