February 5, 2021
By Addy Hatch, WSU News
When Kawkab Shishani joined the faculty at The Hashemite University in Jordan, she noticed how many of the student nurses and doctors used tobacco.
“I was shocked,” she said of the experience and her subsequent research. “They smoke at higher rates than the general public.”
That set her on a course of research and scholarship on tobacco use and tobacco cessation that still defines her career as an associate professor at the WSU College of Nursing.
Last year she spent five months at the Tashkent Medical Academy in Uzbekistan teaching graduate courses, educating healthcare professionals on evidence-based practice, and training physicians on how to counsel patients to stop using tobacco.