June 23, 2010 - The American Association of Family Physicians (AAFP) is currently recruiting for a new pilot project which will train leaders known as “office champions” to make tobacco cessation part of the daily office routine.  Office champions will learn various ways to incorporate tobacco cessation activities into the daily activities of the office through online trainings, teleconferences, and manuals.  This program stresses the need to have all office members involved and suggests that an office champion may not necessarily be a physician in the practice but more often would be an administrator, nurse, physician assistant, or another staff member.  It is the office champion’s duty to develop and implement a program that will increase the office’s tobacco cessation efforts and make tobacco cessation part of the office’s standard practice. 

The fifty chosen practices for the pilot program will be announced in September, with execution and assessment of the program expected to take place the following month and to last until May 2011.

If you would like to apply to be a participating practice or would like more information please visit: http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/health-of-the-public/20100622officechamps.html

The deadline to apply is August 16, 2010.