Vermont Center on Behavior and Health

Nancy Rigotti, MD, is our 2024 Keynote Speaker!

Cytisine for Tobacco Cessation: New Opportunities for an Old Drug

Dr. Nancy Rigotti is a general internist and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Her research aims to reduce tobacco-related disease and death by identifying new tobacco cessation treatments and promoting their delivery across health care systems nationally and internationally. She founded and directs MGH’s multidisciplinary Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, is Past President of both the Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco and the Society of General Internal Medicine, and is a member of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC). For the past decade, much of her work has focused on exploring the potential of cytisine as a new treatment for smoking and vaping and the risks and benefits of e-cigarettes as tools for smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction.

Register for the Conference

Please use our Registration Portal to attend the conference. Join us for one or both days in person, or attend virtually!

Book Your Stay in Burlington

Our conference is held at the Hotel Champlain, formerly Hilton Burlington Lake Champlain.

To book a room at the special conference rate, please use our group booking link to complete your reservation.
The booking window for our special rate closed on Wednesday, 9/18. Please use the links below to reserve a room.

Other hotel options in the area include:

• Hotel Vermont
• Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor
  
• Hilton Garden Inn Downton Burlington
• DoubleTree by Hilton
  

Earn Conference CMEs/CEs

In support of improving patient care, The Robert Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE),

and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Vermont designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This program has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 7.25 Nursing Contact Hours.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Physicians, Nurses

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

1. Discuss the relationship between behavior patterns (lifestyle) and risk for chronic disease and premature death.
2. Identify evidence-based interventions that successfully promote health-related behavior change.

To claim credit after the conference, please visit highmarksce.com/uvmmed.

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