CEASE Staff

Jonathan Winickoff, MD, MPH

Jonathan P. Winickoff, MD, MPH, is a practicing general pediatrician and researcher. Dr. Winickoff's research focuses on strategies to reduce smoking among parents of pediatric patients; current work includes CEASE (Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure), NEWS (Newborn Smoke-free Start), and enhancing the Partners electronic medical record system to include tobacco control counseling and referral methods for pediatric offices. As the Chair of the AAP Tobacco Consortium, Dr. Winickoff works with pediatric tobacco control researchers across the country to develop the best tobacco practices for child healthcare settings. Dr. Winickoff is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and MassGeneral Hospital for Children. Dr. Winickoff was educated at Yale University, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health and completed his pediatric residency at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center and fellowship in health services research at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Bethany Hipple, MPH

Bethany Hipple, MPH, is a Project Director at the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy. Ms. Hipple oversees the development, dissemination and some of the research of the CEASE (Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure) project. Ms. Hipple has training and research experience in medical anthropology, archives, clinical research, medical ethics, health policy and health education. Her current work in pediatric tobacco control is a result of her strong interested in the material culture of medicine, which has been present throughout her career. Ms. Hipple was educated at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Joan Friebely, EdD

Dr. Friebely received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Stanford University and Northeastern University. She carried her interest in story-telling and language into cognitive and narrative approaches to psychotherapy in her first career. She was a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, working with individuals, couples, and groups at Cambridge Mental Health Associates. This experience, and raising two daughters, promoted her interest in research. She went back to school to study human development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her dissertation was on the social construction of parenting. After that, she did research at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Psychiatry Department, on hormonal influences on women's mood, sleep, sexuality, and cognition. As a faculty member at the Center for Child and Health Policy, she has been doing research on tobacco control in the pediatric office setting. She is also developing projects on the effects of children on parents.

Cecilia Vieira, MSc

Maria Cecilia Vieira da Silva is a graduate student in Health Services at Boston University, with concentration in Health Economics. She is the coordinator of a research project sponsored by the Partners Community Benefits Office that involves the creation and implementation of a tobacco control module within the longitudinal medical records (LMR) to enable pediatricians to address parental smoking during the child visit, and the evaluation of its adoption among Partners clinicians. She is also working on a study sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health about cost-effectiveness of coverage of smoking cessation therapies for Medicaid recipients in Massachusetts. Her main research interests are use of quantitative methods in health services research, impact of smoking on healthcare utilization, and adoption of health information technology to improve quality of care.

Nicole Hall, BS

Nicole Hall is a Research Coordinator with Dr. Winickoff’s team at the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy. Ms. Hall helps manage studies related to tobacco control through the pediatric setting, assisting with such processes as maintaining databases, writing grants, and IRB submissions. She also helps to oversee the materials and various projects within CEASE. Ms. Hall first worked at the Center during a college summer intern program in 2005. She returned in 2007, following her graduation from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut where she earned her B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Environment and Human Values. She is also currently pursuing a graduate degree at Boston University College of Communication and is interested in advertising and social marketing.

Emara Nabi, MBBS, MS

Emara Nabi is a Research Coordinator at the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy. She helps in coordinating all studies related to CEASE; assisting with processes such as hiring, training and supervision of research assistants collecting data, maintaining databases, IRB submissions, and training of pediatric practices.  Ms. Nabi received her Bachelor’s degree in Medicine from India and graduated with a Masters degree in Health Policy and Management from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Prior to joining CEASE, she worked on projects to investigate a family approach to addressing lifestyle decision in obesity, and also investigated the perspectives of parents and primary care providers towards screening for various types of diseases.

Last updated on September 18, 2009 by Nicole Hall, BS