Myra L. Muramoto, MD, MPH

Myra L. Muramoto, MD, MPH, UA associate professor of Family and Community Medicine and Public Health, is active in both research and medical education -- in addition to her work as a family physician. She has dedicated most of her career as an educator and researcher to substance-abuse education and treatment, with a particular focus on alcohol and tobacco use. As an educator, she has helped to develop national and international educational projects to train health care and human service providers in prevention, screening and treatment of alcohol and tobacco use disorders. Recently, she has begun to use innovative technology solutions to deliver education and training to health care, public health and other professional and non-professional audiences. Much of Dr. Muramoto's tobacco-cessation work has explored innovative ways to increase assistance for tobacco cessation at the community level, including low-income pregnant women, and Southwest Native Americans and Hispanic communities. More recently, she has turned her attention to addressing the global impacts of the tobacco epidemic in developing countries, including India and Indonesia, and as a consultant to the World Bank Group on community-based quit-smoking projects. Dr. Muramoto is a founding member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Center for Child Health Research Tobacco Consortium and has served on the Emerging Science Advisory Panel for the American Legacy Foundation. In 2005, Dr. Muramoto was selected by the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) as a "Local  Legend," an award given to women physicians who have demonstrated commitment, originality, innovation and creativity in the field of medicine.