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Wendee Wechsberg

Director, Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions (SATEI)

Wendee Wechsberg, PhD, 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.

Publications

Ethnic differences in alcohol and drug use and related sexual risks for HIV among vulnerable women in Cape Town, South Africa: implications for interventions — Biomed Central Public Health
Myers, B., Kline, T.L., Browne, F.A., Carney, T., Parry, C., Johnson, K., & Wechsberg, W.M. (Feb 2013)
Current Interventions to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors and Crack Cocaine Use among HIV-Infected Individuals — Curr HIV/AIDS Rep
Wechsberg, W.M., Golin, C., El-Bassel, N., Hopkins, J., & Zule, W. (Dec 2012)
Results of a Pilot Study to Reduce Methamphetamine Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Methamphetamine-Using Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Not Currently in Treatment — Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
Zule, W.A., Poulton, W.E., Coomes, C.M., Mansergh, G., Charania, M., Wechsberg, W.M., & Jones, H.E. (Nov 2012)
Adapting an evidence-based HIV intervention for at-risk African American college women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities who use alcohol and drugs — SAGE Open
Sawyer-Kurian, K.M., & Wechsberg, W.M. (Oct 2012)
Sexual pleasure and sexual risk among women who use methamphetamine: A mixed methods study — International Journal on Drug Policy
Lorvick, J., Bourgois, P., Wenger, L.D., Arreola, S.G., Lutnick, A., Wechsberg, W.M., & Kral, A.H. (Sep 2012)
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