The Race Workgroup is a multidisciplinary group of scholars from the fields of genetics, psychiatry, clinical psychology, history of science, anthropology, law, health services research, and health policy, and were all members of the Georgetown Ethics Research Consortium on Smoking and Genetics: Smoking Cessation

Tailoring Smoking Cessation Treatment by Genotype:
Implications for Ethics and Clinical Practice (RWJ TTURC)

Dr. Shields is currently a PI for a 5-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study clinical and ethical issues related to tailoring smoking cessation treatment by genotype.