Dr Cheryl Oncken Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine & Director, Clinical Research Center, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
Biography
Cheryl A. Oncken, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Clinical Research Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Dr. Oncken is internationally recognized for her work on the treatment of smoking in women. She has conducted numerous smoking cessation trials in pregnant women including behavioral interventions, short term studies of the safety of nicotine replacement therapy during pregnancy, and one randomized controlled trial of nicotine gum for smoking cessation during pregnancy. She is a member of the WHO committee establishing guidelines on management of tobacco use and second-hand exposure during pregnancy.
