Director, Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions (SATEI)
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rti.org - Research Triangle Park, NC
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Expertise
Substance Abuse Treatment
Gender Issues and HIV Risk
Community-Based Research
International HIV Adaptations
Biography
Wendee Wechsberg, Ph.D., is director of the Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions (SATEI) research program at RTI. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience and has directed outpatient drug-free, methadone, and residential substance abuse treatment programs. Dr. Wechsberg has devoted her career to applied research, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, to develop and test the efficacy of HIV prevention interventions among different populations of substance abusers. She has served as principal investigator/project director on studies with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Wechsberg also serves as a consultant and advisor for various national studies and international studies. She has been conducting international research in South Africa with at-risk substance abusing women since 2001. She has published in the areas of gender and ethnicity, outreach, HIV risk, and women substance abusers.
Education
PhD, Community Psychology, North Carolina State University; MS, Human Development Counseling, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; B.A., Cultural Anthropology, Social Sciences, University of South Florida.
Selected Publications
Zule, W.A., Costenbader, E.C., Meyer, W.J., & Wechsberg, W.M. (2007 Sep). Methamphetamine use and risky sexual behaviors during heterosexual encounters. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 34 (9):689-694.
Wechsberg, W.M., Kasten, J.J., Berkman, N.D., & Roussel, A.E. (2007). Methadone Maintenance Treatment in the U.S.: A Practical Question and Answer Guide. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Wechsberg, W.M., Zule, W.A., Riehman, K.S., Luseno, W.K., & Lam, W.K. (2007). African-American crack abusers and drug treatment initiation: barriers and effects of a pretreatment intervention. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2:10.
Wechsberg, W.M., Luseno, W.K., Lam, W.K., Parry, C.D., & Morojele, N.K. (2006 Mar). Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria. AIDS and Behavior, 10 (2):131-137.
Wechsberg, W.M., Luseno, W.K., & Lam, W.K. (December 2005). Violence against substance-abusing South African sex workers: Intersection with culture and HIV risk. AIDS Care, 17 (S1):55-64.
Wechsberg, W.M., Lam, W.K.K., Zule, W.A., & Bobashev, G. (2004). Efficacy of a woman-focused intervention to reduce HIV risk and increase self-sufficiency among African American crack abusers. American Journal of Public Health, 94 (7):1165-1173.
Wu, L.T., Pilowsky, D.J., Wechsberg, W.M., & Schlenger, W.E. (2004). Injection drug use among stimulant users in a national sample. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 30 (1):61-83.
Wechsberg, W.M., Flannery, B., Kasten, J.J., Suerken, C., Dunlap, L., Roussel, A.E., Crum, L., Murdoch, O., & Diesenhaus, H. (2004). Physicians practicing in methadone treatment programs: who are they and what do they do? Journal of Addictive Diseases, 23 (2):15-31.
Wechsberg, W.M., Lam, W.K., Zule, W., Hall, G., Middlesteadt, R., & Edwards, J. (2003 Feb). Violence, homelessness, and HIV risk among crack-using African-American women. Substance Use and Misuse, 38 (3-6):669-700.
Wechsberg, W.M., & Zule, W. (2001). Implications for evaluation and intervention planning for special populations at risk for HIV. Evaluation and Program Planning, 24 (2):171-173.