Hasmeena Kathuria, MD, ATSF is the Jan and Kathryn Ver Hagen Professor of Translational Research in Medicine, a pulmonologist, and Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is the Director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI), whose mission is to expand the understanding of tobacco dependence and its treatment, and to use this knowledge to design and implement interventions that significantly reduce tobacco use.

Dr. Kathuria is a nationally recognized leader in tobacco treatment, known for her advancement of evidence-based guidelines and policies, innovative implementation science, and scholarly contributions. She is multiple-PI on a nationwide PCORI-funded trial to promote smoking cessation in Black adults, who experience significant disparities in lung cancer, including lower rates of early diagnosis, reduced access to treatment, and poorer survival outcomes.

Prior to joining UW, Dr. Kathuria served as the Founding Director of the Tobacco Treatment Center at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where she led the development of innovative, patient-centered programs to treat tobacco dependence. Her work at BMC earned her the inaugural BMC Clinical Innovator Award and led to several influential publications documenting the success of opt-out approaches to tobacco treatment.

Dr. Kathuria has served as chair of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Tobacco Action Committee and is co-chair of the ATS Tobacco Task Force. She is also a member of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Health Policy and Advocacy Committee’s Tobacco Workgroup and has contributed to several clinical practice guidelines, research policy statements, and workshop reports through ACCP and ATS—including chairing an ACCP Clinical Expert Panel Report on inpatient tobacco treatment and an ATS research policy statement on the effects of inhaled tobacco and cannabis co-use on respiratory health and tobacco cessation.

Dr. Kathuria is additionally a member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) and the SRNT Treatment Network. She serves on the editorial board for the thoracic oncology prevention section of CHEST and is the Tobacco Treatment Section Editor for UpToDate. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with the ATS Assembly on Thoracic Oncology Mid-Career Achievement Award and the ATS Presidential Commendation Award.