[C-U Smokefree] Re: CU-Smokefree digest, Vol 1 #29 - 2 msgs

[Theotskl at aol.com]

Hi All--

thanks Scott for sharing the nice suggestions and ideas.  It would be very 
important as Scott has understood and I am sure all of us as well, to understand 
the significance of local smoking prevalence rates and the fact that CU's is 
th elowest in the state is giving us enormous advantage to educate the 
community about the disparity between that smoking prevalance statistic and the 
painful realization of the lack of a comparable percetnage of smokefree restaurants 
and bars.  I would likke to share more on this later.

My BIO follows (sorry it's long) [Scott please free to edit accrdingly]:

Theodore (Theo) H. Tsoukalas, Ph.D.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 
October 2003


Theo Tsoukalas holds a doctorate degree in sociology from the University of 
Illinois-Urbana.  His graduate study includes training in rural sociology, 
environmental sociology, demography, public policy, social conflict, social 
inequality, industrial labor relations, medical/health sociology,  social movements, 
science studies, urban sociology, and international development. Dr. 
Tsoukalas has published on a wide range of subjects including diffusion of 
innovations, organizational deviance, environmental pollution control, lead poisoning 
research policy, environmental health, institutional failure, and tobacco control 
advocacy and policy evaluation.

In November 2002, Dr. Tsoukalas completed a three-year post-doctoral 
fellowship in health policy research at the prestigious Institute for Health Policy 
Studies (IHPS) at the School of Medicine, University of California-San 
Francisco, where he also served as a member of the academic staff of the School of 
Medicine.  In his capacity as a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Tsoukalas became 
involved firsthand with the planning and execution of multifaceted, multiyear field 
research in tobacco control policy, and he served on the Fellowship Committee 
at IHPS as a representative of the fellows.  As a fellow, he attended numerous 
postdoctoral seminars on topics such as the history and culture of U.S. health 
policy, bio-terrorism and emergency preparedness, disparities in health care 
access and quality, and the ethics of health policy research.  Finally, as 
part of his duties related to field research data collection on tobacco control 
policy, he drafted and monitored related budgets, and trained, managed, and 
evaluated field research personnel.  

Although Dr. Tsoukalas lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, he 
considers the Champaign-Urbana area his home.  He passionately follows Champaign 
County politics, Champaign-Urbana  health and social service movements as well 
as local health issues  (e.g. access to health care, mental health, tobacco 
control, alcohol control, domestic violence, and women’s  public safety). 


Cheers,

Theo

Theo Tsoukalas, Ph.D.
Voice: 415-722-8968
E-mail: theotskl at aol.com