University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
College of Public Health
4301 West Markham #820
Little Rock
ARUSA
72205
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Christine Sheffer is faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Public Health and a clinical psychologist licensed in Arkansas and Mississippi. She has extensive experience training health care providers in Arkansas and across the country with colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center ACT Center. She also has extensive experience implementing and managing statewide programs that deliver brief and intensive interventions for tobacco dependence to large numbers of participants, with a particular emphasis on primary care environments and other health care settings. She served as the Vice President of the international organization, the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD), has been a member of the ATTUD Board of Directors for several years, and recently spearheaded the development of an international Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Accreditation program. Dr. Sheffer’s interests are in the development and dissemination of evidence-based treatments for tobacco dependence.