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Speakers Helping Speakers
This is your place to exchange information about speaking out against tobacco. We're all in this together as we go into our communities to dispel myths, correct misinformation, and spread the word about women and girls, tobacco, and lung cancer.
Send us an email with your response to the question below. Or submit a question of your own. We'll post responses so we all can learn from each other.
Question of the Month—November 2001
How do you go back to the same group a year later with fresh information?
Email us your thoughts.
Here's What Your Colleagues Say About Their Use of the Speakers Kit
"I spoke using the Speakers Kit slides for the Annual American Association of Pediatrics specialty update in Monterey, CA, on Nov. 12, 2000. The pediatricians were very interested [and] attentive, and many came up afterward for more information."
—Karen A. Hardy, MD, FCCP,
California Pacific Medical Center/Pediatric Pulmonary & Cystic Fibrosis Center, San Francisco
"I gave a presentation to our Internal Medicine housestaff in early November on women, smoking, and lung cancer; I encouraged them to become active in education on this topic and introduced the Speakers Kit to them as a resource to which they may have access. I am happy to say that the UC Davis Women's Health Symposium will include a lecture on Women and Lung Cancer. I am not an organizer of the symposium but was asked to suggest speakers."
—Susan Murin, MD, FCCP,
University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA
"As District President of the Massachusetts Medical Society last year, I chose the Speakers Kit as our project. The Massachusetts Medical Society and Southshore Hospital in South Weymouth, MA, sponsored the project. Using four kits, we involved cardiologists, family physicians, urologists, anesthesiologists, and pulmonologists. They all loved it! We went into six school districts, tailoring the presentations to the audience of boys and girls in junior and senior high and adding information from each physician's specialty. It was highly interactive. The project received coverage from the Channel 4 Boston News and the newspaper."
—Alice A. T. Coombs, MD, FCCP,
South Shore Anesthesia Association, South Weymouth, MA
"I presented a talk on women and smoking, women and lung cancer to the Norwalk hospital staff and fellows on Nov. 18, 2000. In addition, I have scheduled talks using the Women's Task Force material for the Rhode Island Academy of Family Physicians (March 2001), as well as a workshop for a smoking cessation program (January 2001), directed solely at women smokers through the local hospital/wellness center. In addition, I have scheduled a meeting to speak with my local middle school in Barrington, RI. If the school agrees to do the program for their 6th and 7th graders, I would love some input from members of the Task Force on follow-up and evaluations, etc."
—Linda Nici, MD,
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
"Several second-year medical students gave presentations using the Speakers Kit in San Antonio schools in conjunction with the Great American Smokeout. One of the medical students was actually a schoolteacher before she went to medical school, so she was able to easily identify with the children. I reviewed the Speakers Kit CD-ROM with the medical students prior to their presentations and demonstrated the many options that it provides."
—Stephanie M. Levine, MD, FCCP,
San Antonio, TX
"Here is what we are doing in the Panama Republic to support the goals of the ACCP and The CHEST Foundation in this and other areas. In the first 10 days as a new ACCP Regent, I informed other fellows, physicians, and medical students about the Speakers Kit. We are also planning to educate children from elementary school to the college level in tobacco prevention and cessation as our first line of attack in the war on tobacco. We have the support of the Young and Kids Minister and the Kiwanis International/Panama Chapter in developing a proposal for engaging all community forces involved in the project. Thank you for getting me involved in the Task Force."
—Jorge E. Sinclair Avila, MD, FCCP,
International Regent for Panama, University of Panama, El Dorado, Panama
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