Meet the leadership team

Karen S. Hudmon

DrPH, MS, RPh, TTS Principal Investigator

Dr. Karen Hudmon serves as the principal investigator for the state grant that funds the work of Rethink Tobacco Indiana. She is a professor of pharmacy practice at the Purdue University College of Pharmacy and clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy.  Hudmon is a licensed pharmacist with a doctorate in public health and nearly 30 years of tobacco research experience and has  provided tobacco cessation training to more than 20,000 health professionals (students and licensed clinicians). She has also provided educational sessions for prescribers of numerous community mental health centers to encourage them to view tobacco dependence within their scope of practice as part of her work with Rethink Tobacco Indiana.

Hudmon has co-led the Indiana-based initiative to advance legislation enabling pharmacists to prescribe all smoking cessation medications under a statewide protocol that she authored. Further, she was one of the original authors of the Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation training program, which has been in existence since 1999 and is used globally to train students and licensed clinicians to apply evidence-based approaches for helping patients quit. Currently, Hudmon’s research is funded by the NIH and the Indiana State Department of Health. In addition, she is a trained tobacco treatment specialist  and a certified UMass Chan Medical School tobacco treatment specialist  trainer.

Email: khudmon@purdue.edu