Physiologist, Clinical Academic, and Leading Expert on Nicotine Addiction
Specialty: Family Medicine
Clinical Professor Renee Bittoun is a physiologist who is a clinical academic and a pioneer specializing in nicotine addiction for more than 40 years and is considered a world expert in the field.She is the first and only full professor of nicotine addiction in Australia. She initiated the first ever Smokers’ Clinic in Australia in 1979, one of the first in the world and recently the first ever Vaping Cessation Clinic in Australia. She was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international peer-reviewed Journal of Smoking Cessation published by Cambridge University, 2009. She has been part of the very first Quit Campaigns of the 1980s, introduced NRT to Australia, published many articles, chapters and books on smoking cessation, nicotine addiction and now vaping. She has been a visiting Professor at the Charles University, Prague; The Sorbonne University, Paris, Leiden University; The Netherlands, and University of Malaysia. She is on multiple national and international committees on nicotine use and abuse amongst them, the BMJ review of nicotine treatment in mental health, and the French Cancer Society International Expert Committee. She is currently Conjoint Clinical Professor at Notre Dame University, Australia and Professor, Head of the Nicotine Addiction Unit, Lifestyle Medicine, Avondale University, Australia. She is an honorary Fellow of the Lifestyle Medicine Association of Australasia.