Tuesday, December 1, 2015

December 2015

Awards & Accomplishments



Postdoctoral Associate Miri Forbes, who works with Professor Bob Krueger, won The Macquarie University Research Excellence Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research. The Research Excellence Awards recognize and reward staff and higher degree research candidates for outstanding performance and excellence in research and innovation.

Grants



In collaboration with colleagues in the Departments of Medicine and Biostatistics as well as the Minneapolis VA, Professor Alex Rothman received a 5-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to fund an intervention that uses a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial to develop and test a treatment algorithm for the delivery of smoking cessation treatment to smokers who have participated in lung cancer screening programs.