John R. Hughes, MD - Addiction Psychiatry
Dr. John R. Hughes reviews medical content for Healthwise, a
nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health
decisions. His major focus has been clinical research on tobacco use. Dr.
Hughes received the Ove Ferno Award for research in nicotine dependence and the
Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Health. He is a co-founder and past
president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and the
Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence. He has written over 350
publications on nicotine and other drug dependencies and is one of the 25
most-cited tobacco scientists. Dr. Hughes has been a consultant on tobacco
policy to the World Health Organization, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,
and the White House.
Board Certifications
- General Psychiatry, American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology
- Addiction Psychiatry, American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology
Healthwise Knowledgebase Topics Reviewed
- Quitting Tobacco Use
Education
- MD: University of Mississippi Medical School,
Jackson, MS, 1975
- Internship in Internal Medicine: University of Mississippi Medical School,
Jackson, MS, 1975–1976.
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Residency in Psychiatry: University of Mississippi Medical School,
Jackson, MS, 1976–1978.
- Residency in Psychiatry: University of
Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 1978–1979
- NIH
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota School of Public Health,
1979–1981
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Dept. of Psychiatry and Division of Epidemiology,
1981–1985
- University of Vermont, Burlington, Departments of
Psychiatry, Psychology, and Family Practice:
- Associate Professor,
1985–1991
- Professor, 1991–present
Professional Affiliations
- Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and
Dependence
- Society for Research on Nicotine and
Tobacco
Selected Publications
- Hughes JR, Stead LF, Lancaster T (2007). Antidepressants for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1).
- Hughes JR (2009). How confident should we be that smoking cessation treatments work? Addiction, 104(10): 1637–1640.
- Hughes JR (2009).
Nicotine-related disorders. In B Sadock, V Sadock, and P Ruiz, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 9th ed., pp 1353–1360. New York: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Hughes J, Weiss R (2009).
Are the differences in the guidelines for the treatment of nicotine dependence and non-nicotine dependence justified? Addiction, 104(12): 1951–1957.
Financial Disclosure
Dr. Hughes has received fees from almost all of the companies that
develop smoking cessation services, medications, and devices and from various
public and private organizations that promote tobacco control.
Credits
| By | Healthwise Staff |
| Last Revised | January 27, 2010 |