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ELIMINATE TOBACCO USE
NEW JERSEY SUMMIT 2025

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2025 Agenda

New Jersey Summit: Wednesday, April 9 (In-Person)
Time (ET) Topic/Title Speaker
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM Registration and Breakfast
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM Introduction

Brittany Richardson, Coordinator for New Jersey Colleges & Universities Implementing Tobacco and Smoke-Free Policies (NJ CUITS), New Jersey Prevention Network

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Opening Remarks

Samantha Harries, Director of Operations, New Jersey Prevention Network

Siobhan Pappas, P.h.D., Manager, Tobacco Control and Prevention, New Jersey Department of Health

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Keynote: To Quit or Not to Quit? That is Not the Question

Kathleen Moreira, Clinical Associate, Behavioral Health and Wellness Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM Exhibiting Break


    11:45 AM – 12:30 PM Breakout Sessions

    Concurrent Sessions:

    Workshop #1 - Overview of Tobacco Product Marketing

    Eugene Talbot, M.P.H., Program Coordinator, Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies


    Workshop #2 - LGBTQ Communities and Tobacco Cessation

    Lucas Manrique, L.A.C., N.C.C., Project Manager for Health Equity and Wellness, Garden State Equality


    Workshop #3 - Quitting Tobacco

    Juliet Winther, M.P.H., C.P.H., Tobacco Health Educator, The Cooperative

    12:30 PM – 1:15 PM Lunch - Exhibitors
    1:15 PM – 2:00 PM Breakout Sessions

    Concurrent Sessions:

    Workshop #1 - Overview of Tobacco Product Marketing

    Eugene Talbot, M.P.H., Program Coordinator, Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies


    Workshop #2 - LGBTQ Communities and Tobacco Cessation

    Lucas Manrique, L.A.C., N.C.C., Project Manager for Health Equity and Wellness, Garden State Equality


    Workshop #3 - Quitting Tobacco

    Juliet Winther, M.P.H., C.P.H., Tobacco Health Educator, The Cooperative

    2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Exhibiting Break
    2:15 PM – 3:00 PM A Journey Through Policy Change

    Panel Discussion: Changing Campus Culture

    Marie Cascarano, Ed.D., M.C.H.E.S., Assistant Director of Health Promotion, Montclair State University

    Peggy Springer, M.P.H., Assistant Director of Campus Health and Wellness Services, New Jersey Institute of Technology

    Yashi Srivastava, Student, Youth and Young Adult Advocate, Incorruptible U, Rutgers University

    Moderated by Carlo Favretto Jr., Statewide Youth Coordinator, Incorruptible.Us, New Jersey Prevention Network

    3:00 PM – 3:25 PM Tobacco Free for a Healthy New Jersey Resources and Action Planning

    Kim Burns, N.C.T.T.P., Southern Regional Coordinator of Tobacco Programs, Tobacco-Free for a Healthy New Jersey

    Elise Knapp, Northern Regional Coordinator of Tobacco Programs, Tobacco-Free for a Healthy New Jersey

    Carlo Favretto Jr., Statewide Youth Coordinator, Incorruptible.Us, New Jersey Prevention Network

    3:25 PM – 3:30 PM Closing

    Brittany Richardson, Coordinator for New Jersey Colleges & Universities Implementing Tobacco and Smoke-Free Policies (NJ CUITS), New Jersey Prevention Network

    Continuing Education Credits Available

    CHES/MCHES Credit: 

    Sponsored by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Inc. The following summits offer CHES/MCHES credits for attendees: the National Summit on March 6, 2025 offers 5.0 credits; the Texas Summit on March 7, 2025 offers 4.0 credits; and the New Jersey Summit on April 9, 2025 offers 3.75 credits. NCHEC Provider #MEP 99697.

    CEU Credit:

    Continuing education credits (CEU) are offered through the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work based in Texas. We encourage verifying with your state to ensure credits will be accepted. The following summits offer CEU credits for attendees: the National Summit on March 6, 2025 offers 5.25 credits; the Texas Summit on March 7, 2025 offers 5.0 credits; and the New Jersey Summit on April 9, 2025 offers 4.5 credits. CEU Provider #6285.

    The Eliminate Tobacco Use Summit welcomes a variety of professionals working in higher education, professionals working in tobacco prevention, cessation, and policy, as well as community and non-profit partners whose mission aligns with that of Eliminate Tobacco Use. Summit organizers reserve the right to decline participant registration to any entity not meeting these inclusion criteria.