Stanton Glantz
Stanton Glantz | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) Institute of Medicine in 2005 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cardiology, public health |
Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
Thesis | A mathematical approach to cardiac muscle physiology (1973) |
Stanton Arnold Glantz (born 1946) is an American professor, author, and tobacco control activist. Glantz is a faculty member at the
Described as the "
In 2017, Glantz was sued by a former postdoctoral researcher for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation. While UCSF internally found that Glantz had "more likely than not" engaged in harassment and had violated the faculty code of conduct,[7] Glantz and UCSF publicly denied the allegations and settled the lawsuit for $150,000.[8] In 2018, a second former employee sued Glantz for harassment; Glantz and UCSF denied these allegations as well.[9]
Life and career
Glantz was the first of two children born in
Glantz obtained a B.Sc. in aerospace engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1969, an M.Sc. in applied mechanics from Stanford University in 1970, and in 1973, a Ph.D. from Stanford in applied mechanics (concentrating on the mechanics of the human heart) and engineering-economic systems (EES is a Stanford department created in the late 1960s, integrating computers and engineering in "methods of systems and economic analysis to engineering problems involving policy and decision making, both in government and industry").[12] Concurrently with his studies, he worked at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, first as a student trainee, then as an aerospace engineer. In 1973, Glantz carried out postdoctoral research on the mathematical modeling of heart tissue at Stanford, and then at the UCSF, where he has worked since 1977.[11][13]
He served for 10 years as an Associate Editor of the
Research
Glantz conducts research on a wide range of issues including the effects of
Glantz is author or coauthor of numerous publications related to secondhand smoke and tobacco control, as well as many papers on cardiovascular function and biostatistics. He published the first study linking e-cigarettes to heart attacks in people.
Working with the UCSF Library, Glantz helped in making over 90 million pages of previously secret tobacco industry documents available via the internet on the UCSF
In March 2014 Glantz released a study concluding that "e-cigarette use is aggravating rather than ameliorating the tobacco epidemic among youths."[23] Thomas J. Glynn, a researcher at the American Cancer Society, responded that "The data in this study do not allow many of the broad conclusions that it draws"[24] In 2018, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine reviewed all the available evidence on e-cigarettes and youth and concluded that “there is substantial evidence that e-cigarette use increases risk of ever using combustible cigarettes among youth and young adults."[25]
In March 2024, Glantz and colleagues published "Population-Based Disease Odds for E-Cigarettes and Dual Use versus Cigarettes" in NEJM Evidence reporting the associations between e-cigarette use and disease. Based on 107 peer reviewed studies of e-cigarette use in the real world, they concluded that, “Direct epidemiological evidence based on actual use of e-cigarettes in the general population suggests that, at least for cardiovascular disease, stroke, and metabolic dysfunction, the odds of disease between current e-cigarette and cigarette use were similar. For asthma, COPD, and oral disease, although lower than with cigarettes, the odds of disease were still substantial.”[26] The paper also concluded that dual use (using e-cigarettes and cigarettes at the same time) is riskier than smoking alone for all outcomes. The paper has been criticized by an e-cigarette advocate.[27] Glantz responded that all these potential criticisms were addressed in the paper or its technical appendix.[28]
Activism
Glantz has been a leading researcher and activist in the nonsmokers' rights movement since 1978, when he helped lead an unsuccessful state initiative campaign to enact a nonsmokers' rights law by popular vote. In 1983, he helped successfully defend the San Francisco Workplace Smoking Ordinance against a tobacco industry-supported attempt to repeal it by referendum.[29] The San Francisco victory represented the first electoral defeat of such a tobacco industry sponsored referendum, and is now viewed as a major turning point in the battle for nonsmokers' rights.[13] He is one of the founders of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
In 1982 he was part of a group of health activists who resurrected the last remaining copy of the film
In May, 1994, Glantz received at his UCSF office two boxes containing 4,000 documents leaked from Brown & Williamson, the third largest US cigarette manufacturer at the time. The material provided the first definitive proof that the tobacco industry had known for 30 years that nicotine was addictive and caused cancer, and had hidden that knowledge from the public. The documents became a landmark in tobacco litigation, medical scholarship, government policy, and corporate control of information.[34][35] With four co-authors, Glantz analyzed the documents and, with extensive excerpts, published the findings as The Cigarette Papers.
Glantz appears in several investigative
Glantz was also an opponent
Oral history published by University of California
In July, 2023, the Oral History Center at the University of California Bancroft Library published an oral history of Glantz' career. The history follows Glantz from elementary school through college and graduate school, including work to develop the emergency protocols for the Apollo 5 mission while still an undergraduate, and research on the relationship between the Department of Defense funding and university research while at Stanford. Guided by Paul Burnett, an historian of science and director of the Oral History Center, the history discusses how Glantz moved from rocket science to cardiovascular research and public health and talks about the practicalities of working at the interface between science and public policy. Also discussed is Glantz' administrative service to UCSF and the larger University of California system, including advocating for fair and equitable treatment of graduate and post-doctoral students, adjunct and clinical faculty, and research into the feasibility of restoring free high-quality higher education in California.
Harassment allegations
On December 6, 2017, Dr. Eunice Neeley, a former postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Glantz at UCSF, filed a complaint of sexual harassment against him in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging that Glantz subjected her to misogynistic, racially and sexually insensitive behavior from 2015 to 2017.[40][41] Dr. Neeley also alleged that when she complained about the harassment to the University, Dr. Glantz retaliated by removing her name from a research paper she had co-authored.[42] The UCSF Associate Vice Chancellor and Research Integrity Officer, Chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute informed the intended journal, American Association for Cancer Research, by letter that "the reason that Dr. Glantz did not include Dr. Neely as an author when he initially submitted the manuscript on May 26, 2017 was that, despite repeated requests, Dr. Neeley had refused to grant Dr. Glantz permission to include her as an author on the paper."[43] Confidential internal UCSF investigations concluded that Glantz had "more likely than not" harassed the former researcher, and that his conduct constituted "hostile work environment sexual harassment" which violated the Faculty Code of Conduct.[7][8] In September 2018, the Regents of the University of California and Dr. Glantz executed a settlement agreement resolving Dr. Neeley’s lawsuit against the Regents and Dr. Glantz personally.[44] This settlement agreement, signed by all parties, stated that the Regents and Dr. Glantz denied Dr. Neeley’s allegations.
In 2018, a second former employee filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit against Glantz; the University of California and Glantz denied these allegations as well.[9]
References
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- ^ a b S. Glantz, et al., "The Cigarette Papers", University of California Press, 1996
- ^ S. Glantz, Primer of Biostatistics (6 ed), McGraw-Hill, 2005
- ^ "Faculty". ucsf.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-02-21.
- ^ a b Asimov, Nanette (October 19, 2018). "UCSF agrees to $150K settlement over sexual harassment claim". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ a b Oransky, Ivan; Marcus, Adam (October 16, 2018). "UCSF settles sexual harassment suit involving star researcher". STAT.
- ^ a b Waxmann, Laura (March 28, 2018). "UCSF professor faces second sexual harassment lawsuit". San Francisco Examiner.
- ^ a b Howe, Rob (20 May 1996). "Battle of the Butts". People. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015. ()
- ^ a b "Stanton A. Glantz, PhD". University of California. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
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- ^ S. Glantz and E. Balbach. "Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles", University of California Press, 2000
- ^ PBS Frontline, Interview with Stanton Glantz for Smoke in the Eye, 1999.
- ^ "Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers". The Huffington Post. 11 February 2013.
- ^ JAMA Pediatrics, 6 March 2014, Electronic Cigarettes and Conventional Cigarette Use Among US Adolescents, retrieved 6 Mar 2014
- ^ Sabrina Tavernise, "Young Using E-Cigarettes Smoke Too, Study Finds" New York Times March 6, 2014
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- ^ Glantz, SA; Nguyen, N; Oliveira da Silva, AL (2024). Population-Based Disease Odds for E-Cigarettes and Dual Use versus Cigarettes, NEJM Evidence, https://evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/EVIDoa2300229
- ^ https://pubpeer.com/publications/9E38A75C420D1F19DA0D48C37FA8D8
- ^ https://pubpeer.com/publications/9E38A75C420D1F19DA0D48C37FA8D8#2
- ^ "Tobacco Control Archives". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ Hochschild, Adam (March 1996). "Shoot-Out in Marlboro Country (cont'd)". Mother Jones. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
- ^ "'Death in the West' to be resurrected". The Herald (Glasgow). May 11, 1982. p. 6. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
- ^ "ree Curriculum Guide and Broadcast of 'death in the West' 000129 and 000131". Tobacco Documents Online. Archived from the original on 2014-12-16. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ S. Glantz, Tobacco: Biology and Politics Archived 2007-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, WRS HealthEdCo
- ^ Karen Butter; Robin Chandler & John Kunze (November 1996). "The Cigarette Papers: Issues in Publishing Materials in Multiple Formats". D-Lib Magazine.
- ^ Wiener, Jon (1 January 1996). "The Cigarette Papers". PBS. Retrieved 17 December 2014. This is an authorized reprint of an article that appeared in The Nation in 1994.
- ^ "Cigarette Wars". CNBC. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Merchants of Doubt". Sony Pictures Classics. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ PBS Frontline, Interview with Stanton Glantz for Inside the Tobacco Deal, 1997
- ^ Brion J. Fox J.D., James M. Lightwood Ph.D., and Stanton A. Glantz Ph.D., "A Public Health Analysis of the Proposed Resolution of [the 1997 United States] Tobacco Litigation" (February 1, 1998). Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Tobacco Control Policy Making: United States. Paper US1998. http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmus/US1998
- ^ "A High-Profile Anti-Tobacco Crusader Is Being Sued For Sexual Harassment". Buzzfeed. December 7, 2017.
- ^ "Former UCSF researcher sues UC regents, UCSF professor for alleged sex harassment". The Daily Californian. December 7, 2017.
- ^ "UCSF professor, prominent tobacco control activist accused of sexual harassment by former mentee". San Francisco Examiner.
- ^ O'Lonergan, Theresa. "UCSF letter to American Association for Cancer Research (PDF)" (PDF). Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Settlement Agreement and Release of All Claims (PDF)" (PDF). Retrieved 13 November 2020.