Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center will offer accredited
Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) workshops on-site in
Buffalo, N.Y. from October 14 to 18, 2024 and from May 12 to 16, 2025. Registration details and an
application for scholarships are available at
http://www.roswellpark.org/tts or by calling 716-845-5974.
BUFFALO,
N.Y., July 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For
those seeking to help people quit cigarette smoking, vaping or
other tobacco* product use, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer
Center (Roswell Park) offers accredited Tobacco Treatment
Specialist (TTS) workshops twice yearly. The week-long, on-site
certification program continues this fall and next spring, with
scholarships available for interested attendees.
Upcoming week-long workshops at Roswell
Park in Buffalo, N.Y. offer
certification for treating addiction to tobacco products;
scholarships are available to interested attendees.
Roswell Park TTS Training Program organizers encourage
healthcare professionals and educators to enroll in these unique
and engaging workshops taught by nationally recognized experts in
the field of tobacco dependence treatment. The upcoming workshops
take place on-site in Buffalo,
N.Y. from October 14 to 18,
2024 and from May 12 to 16,
2025.
Roswell Park is one of just 28 institutions worldwide accredited
by the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs to offer TTS
workshops. Registration details and a scholarship application are
available at http://www.roswellpark.org/tts or by calling
716-845-5974.
The workshop fee includes all training and course materials as
well as breakfast, lunch, beverages and snacks each day of
training. The latest program offering in April 2024 included more than 40 participants
from across New York State as well
as new hires with the New York
State Quitline, physically based at the Roswell Park
campus.
Christine Sheffer, PhD, professor
of oncology at Roswell Park, directs the Tobacco Treatment
Specialist Training Program. She and other world-renowned experts
in the field help trainees develop specific core competencies and
skills needed to effectively treat commercial tobacco and nicotine
use. The workshops include extensive discussions of the many types
of tobacco and nicotine products on the market and the evolving
tobacco regulatory environment.
Sheffer and her team welcome applicants from any professional
background or community. "We are particularly interested in
providing scholarships to people who work in underserved
communities or who work with communities experiencing
tobacco-related disparities," she said. "People in some communities
— including sexual and gender minority communities, low-income
communities and many communities of color – for many reasons, are
more likely to develop tobacco-related diseases, which makes it
especially important for them to quit."
- The term tobacco throughout this press release refers to the
use of manufactured, combustible commercial products and vape
products – not the sacred, medicinal and traditional use of tobacco
by Native American nations and other Indigenous groups.
Media Contact
Tony Astran, New York State Quitline, 716-845-8239,
anthony.astran@roswellpark.org, https://www.nysmokefree.com/newsroom
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