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Research Links for Carol Riker Carol Riker is a
faculty associate with the UK Tobacco Policy Research Program
and co-investigator and community advisor for the NHLBI-funded
study, An Intervention for Promoting Smoke-free Policy in
Rural Kentucky. She also leads the biannual statewide
Workplace and School Tobacco Policy studies and is the technical
assistance coordinator for the Kentucky Center for Smoke-free
Policy. Riker developed a coalition guidebook, Growing
People: Building and Maintaining Coalitions for Tobacco Use
Prevention and Cessation.
Riker received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the
University of Michigan and her master's degree from the
University of Kentucky. She has taught public health nursing for
the College since 1974 and currently teaches health promotion in
the first clinical nursing course. She has collaborated with
schools and local health departments in youth health promotion
initiatives for heart health, safety, and HIV prevention. She
has been an active advocate for seat belt safety and tobacco use
prevention.
In 2001 Riker received the Louise J. Zegeer award for
undergraduate teaching from UK College of Nursing. In 2005 she
received a Person of Promise Award from the Family Care Center
Volunteer Board in Lexington. In 2006 she received a Service
Recognition Award from the Kentucky School Nurses Association
and also a Community Empowerment Center Award for contributions
to the Gainesway community in Lexington. She received the Wethington Award in
2006 and 2007 from the College of Nursing for her research
productivity. In November 2007 she was among the first seven
recipients of the University of Kentucky Provost's
Distinguished Service Professors Award, which honors faculty for
their consistently high level of achievement in their
contributions to their disciplines and the University.
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Recent Publications
Peden, A.R., Rayens, M.K., Hall,
L.A., Hahn, E.J., Riker, C., Ashford, K., & Zhang, M. (In
press). Nicotine addiction in pregnancy: Preliminary efficacy of
a mental health intervention. Addictive Disorders and Their
Treatment. Hahn, E.J., Riker, C.A., Butler,
K., Cavendish, S., Lewis, P., Maggio Greathouse, L.W.,
Nunley, V. (2007). Enforcement of tobacco Purchase,
Use, and Possession laws in four Kentucky communities.
Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, 8(2),
140-147.
Lee, K. Hahn, E.J., Riker, C.,
Head, S., Seither, P. (2007). Immediate impact of
smoke-free laws on indoor air quality. Southern
Medical Journal, 100(9), 885-889.
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