MAIN SPONSOR SYMPOSIUM: Harm Reduction Re-Visited: The Why? The How? and The What? - Where possible, should all interventions lead to complete cessation? This symposium is organised and funded by Pfizer Ltd.
Presenter(s)
Dr Alex Bobak GPwSI and GP / Senior Partner, Wandsworth Medical Centre, London
Professor David Taylor Emeritus Professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, University College London
Tina Williams Project Director, Development & Training for Tobacco Free Futures, Manchester
Biography
Dr Alex Bobak is senior partner of Wandsworth Medical Centre, a General Practice in South London. He has been running specialist stop smoking clinics as a GP for many years and is the first GP with Special Interests (GPSI) in Smoking Cessation in the country. He has carried out research into pharmacological treatment in smoking cessation and spends much of his time teaching smoking cessation to health professionals in the UK and abroad. His main interest is the systematic delivery of smoking cessation in primary care.
David Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL. Between 2000 and 2009 he was Chair of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, and subsequently became a non-executive director of the Camden Primary Care Trust. In the 1980s and early 1990s he was chair of the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham FPC/Family Health Services Authority. David has worked at organisations ranging from the Audit Commission (where he was responsible for the Dear to Our Hearts? study that led to the NSF for CHD prevention and treatment) to the industry funded Office of Health Economics. His current work includes research on public health and pharmaceutical policy formation and the future of the pharmaceutical industry. His professional interests in tobacco related harm reduction date back to the 1970s.
Tina Williams is the Project Director: Development & Training for Tobacco Free Futures, formerly the NW Office of Tobacco Control and now a community interest company. Her tobacco control career began in 1999 when she established and managed one of the first smoking cessation services in the UK, later becoming Tobacco Lead for Wirral. Passionate about her field of practice she has focussed on developing and testing innovative approaches to tackling tobacco related health inequalities and breaking the inter-generational cycle of children and young people’s exposure and addiction to tobacco.
Tina’s background is in nursing, teaching and health improvement.
