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Buffalo State College

The Center for Health and Social Research

Thomas H. Nochajski, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
thn@buffalo.edu
tnochajs@ria.buffalo.edu
nochajth@buffalostate.edu
phone: (716) 878-6137

Background and Job Description

Dr. Nochajski is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Health and Social Research, as well as a Faculty Member in the Department of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, and a Research Scientist III at the Research Institute on Addictions. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Psychology from the University at Buffalo. Dr. Nochajski's research interests include criminal justice groups, DWI, alcohol/drug use, and the health consequences of drinking/drug use. He is Principal Investigator of the project "A harm reduction approach to reducing DWI recidivism" funded by NIAAA.

Dr. Nochajski's major job responsibilities at the Center include participating in research program development, program evaluation, questionnaire development, protocol design, data management and analysis, drafting reports/papers, and conducting presentations in scientific and public forums.

Selected Publications:

Nochajski, T.H. & Wieczorek, W.F. (1998). Identifying potential recidivists: Do non-obvious indicators help? Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 17(1), 69-83.

Nochajski, T.H. & Wieczorek, W.F. (2000). Drinking driver characteristics & number of DWI offenses. In H. Laurel & H. Bergman (eds.) Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety- T-2000, Stockholm: Ekonomi-Print.

Russell, M., Pierce, R.S., Chan, A.W.K., Wieczorek, W.F., Moscato, B.S., & Nochajski, T.H. (2001).  Natural Recovery in a community-based sample of alcoholics: Study and design and descriptive data.  Substance Use & Misuse, 36(11), 1421-1446.

Schunemann, H., Grant, B., Frudenheim, J., Muti, P., McCann, S., Kudalkar, D., Ram, M., Nochajski, T.H., Russell, M., & Trevisan, M. (2002).  Beverage specific alcohol intake in a population based study: Evidence for a positive association between pulmonary function and wine intake.  BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2:3.
(Available on-line at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2466/2/3/).

Gruenewald, P.J., Russell, M., Light, J., Lipton, R., Searles, J., Johnson, F., Trevison, M., Freudenheim, J., Muti, P., Carosella, A., Nochajski, T.H. (2002).  One drink to a lifetime of drinking: Temporal structures of drinking patterns.  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 26(6), 916-925.

McCann, S.E., Sempos, C., Freudenheim, J.L., Muti, P., Russell, M., Nochajski, T.H., Ram, M., Hovey, K., & Trevisan, M. (in press).  Alcoholic beverage preference and characteristics of drinkers and nondrinkers.  Nutrition Metabolism & Cardiovascular Disease.