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overview	Biography Joseph DiFranza, MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, is a recognized national expert on adolescent tobacco utilization. Since 1980, Dr. DiFranza has been conducting research on the topic of tobacco. His research covers a range of tobacco-related topics including the onset of nicotine dependence, the effects of tobacco advertising, tobacco industry public relations programs, tobacco-related complications of pregnancy, school smoking cessation programs, and the effects of environmental tobacco smoke. Dr. DiFranza is recognized nationally for his contribution to the efforts to prevent the illegal sale of tobacco to children. Click here to view Dr. Difranza's curriculum vitae CurrentPositions Longitudinal Preceptor Program Education University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, Doctor of Medicine, 1981 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Psychology 1976 Honor Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Phi University of Massachusetts Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program, Worcester, 1981 1984 Fellowship in faculty development, University of North Carolina , 1984 1985 Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine 1984, recertified 1990-1997, 1996-2003, 2004- Affiliations Tobacco Control Resource Center, Board of Directors (1985-present) American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Research Tobacco Consortium 2001 Scholarly Activity National Institute on Drug Abuse. “The Transition to Nicotine Dependence.” October 2001- September 2006. $1.8 million. 5 RO1 DA14666-01 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The Synar Amendment: Past, Present and Future. July 1, 2001- June 30, 2004. $121,754 #0456644

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Biography

Joseph DiFranza, MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, is a recognized national expert on adolescent tobacco utilization. Since 1980, Dr. DiFranza has been conducting research on the topic of tobacco. His research covers a range of tobacco-related topics including the onset of nicotine dependence, the effects of tobacco advertising, tobacco industry public relations programs, tobacco-related complications of pregnancy, school smoking cessation programs, and the effects of environmental tobacco smoke. Dr. DiFranza is recognized nationally for his contribution to the efforts to prevent the illegal sale of tobacco to children.

Click here to view Dr. Difranza's curriculum vitae

CurrentPositions

Longitudinal Preceptor Program

Education

University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, Doctor of Medicine, 1981
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Psychology 1976
Honor Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Phi
University of Massachusetts Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program, Worcester, 1981 1984
Fellowship in faculty development, University of North Carolina , 1984 1985
Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine 1984, recertified 1990-1997, 1996-2003, 2004-

Affiliations

Tobacco Control Resource Center, Board of Directors (1985-present)
American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Research Tobacco Consortium 2001

Scholarly Activity

National Institute on Drug Abuse. “The Transition to Nicotine Dependence.” October 2001- September 2006. $1.8 million. 5 RO1 DA14666-01

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The Synar Amendment: Past, Present and Future. July 1, 2001- June 30, 2004. $121,754 #0456644

One or more keywords matched the following items that are connected to DiFranza, Joseph

Item Type	Name
Academic Article	Youth access to tobacco: the effects of age, gender, vending machine locks, and "it's the law" programs.
Academic Article	A model for the efficient and effective enforcement of tobacco sales laws.
Academic Article	The Tobacco Institute's "It's the Law" campaign: has it halted illegal sales of tobacco to children?
Academic Article	A comparison of the advertising and accessibility of cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and loose tobacco.
Academic Article	Pharmacy promotion of tobacco use among children in Massachusetts.
Academic Article	The effect of enforcing tobacco-sales laws on adolescents' access to tobacco and smoking behavior.
Academic Article	Symptoms of nicotine dependence and other predictors of student smoking at school: implications for school smoking policy.
Academic Article	Parent's socioeconomic status, adolescents' disposable income, and adolescents' smoking status in Massachusetts.
Academic Article	Recollections and repercussions of the first inhaled cigarette.
Academic Article	Symptoms of tobacco dependence after brief intermittent use: the Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth-2 study.
Academic Article	Measuring statewide merchant compliance with tobacco minimum age laws: the Massachusetts experience.
Academic Article	The loss of autonomy over smoking in relation to lifetime cigarette consumption.
Academic Article	Development of a measure of the latency to needing a cigarette.
Academic Article	Development of symptoms of tobacco dependence in youths: 30 month follow up data from the DANDY study.
Academic Article	Screening adolescents for nicotine dependence: the Hooked On Nicotine Checklist.
Academic Article	Short term patterns of early smoking acquisition.
Academic Article	Perceived accessibility as a predictor of youth smoking.
Academic Article	A comparison of the autonomy over tobacco scale and the Fagerstr?m test for nicotine dependence.
Concept	Massachusetts
Academic Article	Confirmatory factor analysis of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS) in adults.

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