Speaker Group: Speaker 2024

Dr Amanda L. Graham

Amanda Graham

Dr. Graham is Chief Health Officer at Truth Initiative where leads a cross-functional team that develops, evaluates, and disseminates digital programs for tobacco cessation. She is also Professor of Medicine (adjunct) at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and Professor of Oncology (adjunct) at Georgetown University Medical Center. For the past 25 years,… Read more »

Dr. Brian Yagi, M.D.,J.D.

Brian Yagi

Trained as a physician and a lawyer, Dr. Yagi is interested in a broad array of health policy topics at the intersection of medicine and law. His experience in FDA’s Office of Policy and Planning has led to a passion about how FDA can regulate the wide variety of products under its purview, as well… Read more »

Dr Rafael Meza

Rafaeld Meza

Dr. Meza’s research interests lie at the interface of epidemiology, biostatistics and biomathematics. He is an expert in lung cancer epidemiology and prevention and tobacco epidemiology and control. The goal of his research program is to characterize the impact of disease prevention and control interventions, informing stakeholders and policy makers as to the most effective… Read more »

Prof Ron Borland

Ron Borland

Professor Ron Borland (PhD) joined Deakin University School of Psychology in February 2024.  He is transitioning from the University of Melbourne (2019-2024). Prior to that he was the Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow in Cancer Prevention, at The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia where he worked for 33 years. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers mostly… Read more »

Assoc Prof Andrea Villanti

Andrea Villanti, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Deputy Director of the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies and an associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Previously, Dr. Villanti served on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University… Read more »

Prof Benjamin A. Toll

Dr. Benjamin Toll is a licensed clinical psychologist, a Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry, the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Public Health Sciences, and the Associate Director of Education and Training and Co-Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, and Director of the MUSC Health… Read more »

Mitch Zeller J.D

Mitch Zeller, J.D., was the director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products from March 2013 through April 2022. The mission of CTP—established by enactment of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act—is “to make tobacco-related death and disease part of America’s past, not America’s future, and, by doing so, ensure a healthier… Read more »

Prof Scott Sherman

Dr. Sherman is currently a Professor of Population Health, Medicine and Psychiatry NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He received his MD from NYU School of Medicine and completed an MPH in Epidemiology/Biostatistics at Boston University School of Public Health. He is a practicing physician in internal medicine and geriatrics and sees patients at the Veterans… Read more »

Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst. She’s recently moved from the University of Oxford in the UK, where she retains an honorary contract. She is an expert in evidence synthesis and an editor for Cochrane. She leads multiple high impact Cochrane reviews in the areas… Read more »

Deborah Arnott

Deborah Arnott is a recognised international expert on tobacco control and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, with a particular interest in nicotine regulation and harm reduction. She was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence committee which developed guidance for England on tobacco harm reduction and of an expert… Read more »