Robert Schnoll

Faculty PhD John H. Glick, MD Professor in Cancer Research, University of Pennsylvania

Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction

Robert Schnoll, PhD is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) the John H. Glick, MD Professor in Cancer Research and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Associate Director for Population Science at the Penn Abramson Cancer Center and Co-Director of the Community Research and Engagement Core for the Penn Center for AIDS Research.

Dr. Schnoll is an implementation scientist and nicotine addiction researcher, leading studies on ways to improve the use and effectiveness of treatments for nicotine dependence, particularly among under-resourced communities, and leading studies evaluating the use of implementation strategies to address practice gaps across medicine, particularly in the context of tobacco use and cancer care.

He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, received 23 NIH grants as Principal Investigator, served as a scientific advisor for the NCI and the American Cancer Society, chaired or served on more than 90 NIH study sections, served as program chair/co-chair for 3 annual meetings of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, and served as a mentor for national training programs in nicotine addiction treatment and implementation science. With funding from a NIDA K24, he devotes a substantial proportion of effort to mentoring students, fellows, and junior faculty in nicotine addiction and implementation science research.