Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University Massachusetts Medical School
Family Medicine
Dr. Joseph R. Difranza, MD
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Doctor Joseph R. Difranza, MD practices Family Medicine. He graduated from University of Massachusetts Medical School. University of Massachusetts Medical School is ranked 49/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 1 awards: "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Joseph Difranza is also published. He has 101 publications published. The lastest publication: "A model for the efficient and effective enforcement of tobacco sales laws.' Joseph R. Difranza is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Confirmatory factor analysis of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS) in adults.
- Item Response Theory analysis of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS).
- Nicotine and Resting-State Functional Connectivity: Effects of Intermittent Doses.
- Recalled first reactions to inhaling nicotine predict the level of physical dependence.
- Commentary on Hu etâal. (2014): the validity of the DSM is not a 'given'.
- Retail Impact of Raising Tobacco Sales Age to 21 Years.
- Cohort Profile: The Nicotine Dependence in Teens (NDIT) Study.
- The development and expression of physical nicotine dependence corresponds to structural and functional alterations in the anterior cingulate-precuneus pathway.
- Gender Differences in the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence in Korean Americans.
- A comparison of the autonomy over tobacco scale and the Fagerström test for nicotine dependence.
- Effectiveness of a school nurse-delivered smoking-cessation intervention for adolescents.
- The developmental sequence of tobacco withdrawal symptoms of wanting, craving and needing.
- Which interventions against the sale of tobacco to minors can be expected to reduce smoking?
- Research Opportunities Concerning Youth and the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
- An Evaluation of a Clinical Approach to Staging Tobacco Addiction.
- Does progression through the stages of physical addiction indicate increasing overall addiction to tobacco?
- The assessment of tobacco dependence in young users of smokeless tobacco.
- A comparison of brain and behavioral effects of varenicline and nicotine in rats.
- Development of a measure of the latency to needing a cigarette.
- Who are you going to believe? Adolescents and nicotine addiction.
- Early course of nicotine dependence in adolescent smokers.
- The Autonomy Over Smoking Scale.
- Perceived accessibility as a predictor of youth smoking.
- Hooked from the first cigarette.
- Effect of a pediatric practice-based smoking prevention and cessation intervention for adolescents: a randomized, controlled trial.
- Let the children be heard: lessons from studies of the early onset of tobacco addiction.
- R-rated film viewing and adolescent smoking.
- Susceptibility to nicotine dependence: the Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth 2 study.
- Symptoms of tobacco dependence after brief intermittent use: the Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth-2 study.
- The extent to which tobacco marketing and tobacco use in films contribute to children's use of tobacco: a meta-analysis.
- Best practices for enforcing state laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors.
- Screening adolescents for nicotine dependence: the Hooked On Nicotine Checklist.
- Prenatal and postnatal environmental tobacco smoke exposure and children's health.
- Preventing cancer by controlling youth tobacco use.
- Parent's socioeconomic status, adolescents' disposable income, and adolescents' smoking status in Massachusetts.
- Adolescents' acquisition of cigarettes through noncommercial sources.
- Symptoms of nicotine dependence and other predictors of student smoking at school: implications for school smoking policy.
- Tobacco control for clinicians who treat adolescents.
- A gadget can't fix what's wrong with the tobacco distribution system.
- Implications of the autonomy theory of nicotine dependence.
- Measuring the loss of autonomy over nicotine use in adolescents: the DANDY (Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youths) study.
- Progressive levels of physical dependence to tobacco coincide with changes in the anterior cingulum bundle microstructure.
- A systematic review of the International Classification of Diseases criteria for the diagnosis of tobacco dependence.
- Smoking is not a mental illness.
- A new approach to the diagnosis of tobacco addiction.
- A systematic review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual diagnostic criteria for nicotine dependence.
- Tobacco dependence in light smokers.
- Determinants of first puff and daily cigarette smoking in adolescents.
- Cigarette package design: opportunities for disease prevention.
- Restricting the retail supply of tobacco to minors.
- Assessing college students' autonomy over smoking with the Hooked On Nicotine Checklist.
- Sources of tobacco for youths in communities with strong enforcement of youth access laws.
- Is the standard compliance check protocol a valid measure of the accessibility of tobacco to underage smokers?
- Measuring statewide merchant compliance with tobacco minimum age laws: the Massachusetts experience.
- State and federal compliance with the Synar Amendment: federal fiscal year 1998.
- What is the potential cost-effectiveness of enforcing a prohibition on the sale of tobacco to minors?
- Initial symptoms of nicotine dependence in adolescents.
- State and federal compliance with the Synar amendment: federal fiscal year 1997.
- World''s best practice in tobacco control.
- Youth access: the baby and the bath water.
- A comparison of the advertising and accessibility of cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and loose tobacco.
- Are the federal and state governments complying with the Synar Amendment?
- Impediments to the enforcement of youth access laws.
- State and federal revenues from tobacco consumed by minors.
- A model for the efficient and effective enforcement of tobacco sales laws.
- The effect of enforcing tobacco-sales laws on adolescents' access to tobacco and smoking behavior.
- Tobacco industry efforts hindering enforcement of the ban on tobacco sales to minors: actions speak louder than words.
- Youth access to tobacco: the effects of age, gender, vending machine locks, and "it's the law" programs.
- Morbidity and mortality in children associated with the use of tobacco products by other people.
- The AMA, tobacco, and the public health.
- Effect of maternal cigarette smoking on pregnancy complications and sudden infant death syndrome.
- Marketing adolescent tobacco addiction.
- Smoking and drunk driving.
- Passive smoking: a public health problem.
- Legislative efforts to protect children from tobacco.
- The relationship of smoking to motor vehicle accidents and traffic violations.
- Smoking cessation counseling by family physicians.
- Hard-core smokers.
- School tobacco policy: a medical perspective.
- Who profits from tobacco sales to children?
- Alcoholism and smoking.
- RJR Nabisco's cartoon camel promotes camel cigarettes to children.
- Preventing teenage tobacco addiction.
- The Tobacco Institute: helping youth say "yes" to tobacco.
- Pharmacy promotion of tobacco use among children in Massachusetts.
- Women's intuition.
- The Tobacco Institute's "It's the Law" campaign: has it halted illegal sales of tobacco to children?
- Youth and tobacco.
- Advice on using over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy-patch, gum, or lozenge-to quit smoking.
- Smoking prevention and cessation intervention delivery by pediatric providers, as assessed with patient exit interviews.
- Smoking trajectories of adolescent novice smokers in a longitudinal study of tobacco use.
- Assessment of nicotine dependence symptoms in adolescents: a comparison of five indicators.
- Is it time to abandon youth access programmes?
- Development of symptoms of tobacco dependence in youths: 30 month follow up data from the DANDY study.
- Reliability of selected measures of nicotine dependence among adolescents.
- The hardest thing is the habit: a qualitative investigation of adolescent smokers'' experience of nicotine dependence.
- The state of office-based interventions for youth tobacco use.
- The federal initiative to halt the sale of tobacco to children--the Synar Amendment, 1992-2000: lessons learned.
- Genetically decreased CYP2A6 and the risk of tobacco dependence: a prospective study of novice smokers.
- Tobacco Use Disorder: A Family Disease.
Schools
University of Massachusetts Worcester Campus
University Mass
Doctors Specialties
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Connecticare
- Fallon Community Health Plan
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Neighborhood Health Plan
- Network Health
- Tufts Health Plans
- Tufts PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
Awards
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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University of Massachusetts -
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Hospital
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UMass Memorial Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1093798902 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | DIFRANZA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | JOSEPH | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 016550002 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Family Practice | |
| Total Claim Count | 3077.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 9.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 320.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 10.4 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1093798902 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | DIFRANZA |
| First Name Of The Provider | JOSEPH |
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