About Us

The Queens Health Network (QHN) is comprised of Elmhurst Hospital Center (EHC) and Queens Hospital Center (QHC), the Queens Cancer Center and thirteen community-based medical centers. Queens Health Network (QHN) provides the infrastructure and overall support for this grant. Within the network, we have identified Tobacco Cessation Training Leaders who will be providing educational outreach to QHN based providers. Queens Quits staff will provide ongoing support for these efforts as well as all other project efforts.

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Margaret Kemeny
  Director of the Cancer Center Queens Health Network
  
Project Director:
Lisa Marini
Health Education Coordinator:
Beatrice Osabwa
Data Coordinator:
Petronella Phillips
Project Number:
 1-718-883-2626

Tobacco CessationTraining Leaders:

      • Dr. Jean Fleischman (QHC)
      • Dr. Richard Lopez (QHC)
      • Dr. Joanna Tulczynska (QHC)
      • Dr. Danielle Williams (QHC)
      • Dr. Rekha Patel (QHC)
      • Dr. Michael Csompo (QHC)
      • Ms. Andrea Kalman (QHC)
      • Dr. Irwin Berlin (EHC)
      • James Friedman (EHC)
      • Dr. Marlon Brewer (EHC)
      • Dr. Craig Brown (EHC)
      • Dr. Alfred Astua (EHC)


American Cancer Society (ACS) brings expertise in engaging community physicians and delivering important health information. ACS will be providing outreach to community-based providers and develop relationship with these providers to help them get their patients to stop smoking.

Regional Vice President of Queens:
 David Golub
Community Health Initiatives Directors:
Vivian Guzman
Seongho Kim

  
Community Executive, Chinese Unit:
 Ming-der Chang
Director of Patient anf Family Services:
 Adriana Cadavid



Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) brings expertise in both smoking cessation and evaluation. MSKCC will provide content and technical support for the trainers. Also, they will lead evaluation of the reach and impact of the project on participating physicians and other health care providers. The project's effectiveness as a vehicle for identification of tobacco users at each patient encounter and as an opportunity to provide appropriate patient referral counseling/treatment services will also be assessed.

Dr. Jamie Ostroff
Director of Smoking Cessation Service and Chief of Behavioral Sciences Service,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Bruce Rapkin
Director, Community Outreach and Health Disparities Lab

Dr. David Lounsbury
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences