Richard J. O'Connor

Ph.D.

Dr. Richard J. O'Connor is a Professor of Oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. He joined Roswell Park's staff in 2004 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and was appointed Member of the Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences in 2015. Additionally, he serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Cancer Sciences (Prevention track) doctoral program in the Roswell Park Graduate Division (University at Buffalo), Research Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, and as Research Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health with the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions.

Dr. O'Connor has authored more than 300 scientific papers on topics related to tobacco control. His program of research focuses on building the evidence base for tobacco regulatory science, with a particular focus on product-user interactions that influence behavior and risk perceptions. He is co-director of the WNY Center for Research on Flavored Tobacco Products (CRoFT), one of nine FDA and NIH supported Tobacco Centers for Regulatory Science. He is a co-investigator on the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC), which is investigating the impact of national level tobacco control policies across more than 20 different countries. He is also a project director on the NCI-funded Consortium on Methods for Evaluating Tobacco (COMET), which is currently focused on developing a regulatory evidence base around cigarette filter ventilation and its potential relationship to lung adenocarcinoma.

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