Michael Fiore is one of two doctors nationwide honored for advocacy work
October 19, 2009

MADISON—Dr. Michael Fiore (pictured right), a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of two physicians in the nation to receive the 2009 Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institute of Medicine as a Profession.

Fiore is founder and chair of the school’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (CTRI), and a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of tobacco dependence.  Fiore is also a participant in the UWCCC's Cancer Control research program. He served as chair of the panels that produced both the original U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, in 2000 and its updated version in 2008. The PHS guidelines are considered the national gold standard for health care providers.

Fiore is also a widely published researcher who has focused on assessing treatments that help smokers quit most effectively.

“Mike Fiore’s stellar work as a scientist, physician, researcher and advocate has put UW-Madison in the international spotlight as an incomparable resource in the fight against tobacco,” said SMPH Dean Dr. Robert Golden.  “This honor is appropriate recognition of the many roles he plays so well.”

His involvement with CTRI,  since its establishment in 1992, has helped the UW-CTRI to become internationally recognized as a worldwide authority on tobacco research and cessation.

The Institute of Medicine as a Profession is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making professionalism a major force in medicine. It was founded in 2003.      

Fiore will be honored in an awards ceremony November 19 in Washington DC.