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Buffalo State College

The Center for Health and Social Research

William F. Wieczorek, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Health and Social Research
Professor, Dept. of Geography and Planning
wieczowf@buffalostate.edu
phone: (716) 878-6137
fax: (716) 878-5905

Background and Job Description

Dr. William F. Wieczorek is the Director of the Center for Health and Social Research as well as a Professor of Geography and Planning. Dr. Wieczorek is a native of Western New York who received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University at Buffalo. Prior to coming to Buffalo State in 1997, he was a senior research scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions. Dr. Wieczorek’s research interests include the epidemiology of substance abuse, prevention of drunk driving, evaluation of educational programs, community health needs assessments, advanced GIS applications, spatial models, and applied social/health research. His teaching interests include the epidemiology of alcohol use, applied geography, physical geography, and medical geography.

Committees and Additional Affiliations:

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Preventative Medicine,
School of Medicine, University at Buffalo

Visiting Professor and Co-Director, Institute of Behavioral Medicine,
Dalian Medical University

Member and Alternate Chair, Institutional Review Board,
Research Institute on Addictions

Faculty Member, Masters of Public Health program at the University of Buffalo

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo

Associate Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions

NIH Grant Reviewer, Behavioral Genetics and Epidemiology Study Section
(formerly SNEM-2)

NIAAA Center Grant and SBIR Reviewer

Editorial Board Member for Journal of Studies on Alcohol

Recent Honors and Awards:

Who's Who in Medicine and Health Care, 2000-present

President's Award for Excellence in Research, Creativity, and Scholarship,
Buffalo State College, 2001

International Who's Who of Professionals, 2001-present

Who's Who in America, 2002

Chancellor's Award Honoring Research and Scholarship in the Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences, 2002

State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Research and Scholarship, 2005

Special Honoree of WNY United Against Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2006

Selected Publications:

Wieczorek, W.F. & Hanson, C.E. (1997). New modeling methods: Geographic information systems and spatial analysis. Alcohol Health and Research World, 21(4), 331-339.

Wieczorek, W.F., Callahan, C.P., & Morales, M. (1997). Motivation for change among DWI offenders. In C. Mercier-Guyon (Ed.) Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety - T’97, pp. 1069-1076, CERMT: Annecy, France.

Wieczorek, W.F. & Coyle, J.J. (1998). Targeting DWI prevention. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 17(1), 15-30

Welte, J.W. & Wieczorek, W.F. (1999). Alcohol, intelligence, and violent crime in young males. Journal of Substance Abuse, 10(3), 309-319.

Wieczorek, W.F. (2000). Using geographic information systems for small area analysis. In Wilson, R.E. & Dufour, M.C. (Eds.) The Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems in Small Geographic Areas, pp.137-162, NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Bethesda. (NIH Pub. No. 00-4357)

Hanson, C.E., & Wieczorek, W.F. (2002).  Alcohol mortality: A comparison of spatial clustering methods.  Social Science and Medicine, 55: 791-802.

Zhang, J., Wieczorek, W.F., Chao, J., Zhou, L., Jia, S., Sun, Y., Jin, S. & Conwell, Y. (2002).  Studying Suicide with Psychological Autopsy. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 32, 370-379.

Wieczorek, W.F., & Naumov, A.Y. (2002). A geographic analysis of DWI offenders. (CD ROM). In D. Mayhew & C. Dussault (Eds.), Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic safety - T2002, Montreal, Quebec: Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec.

Zhang, L., Welte, J.W., & Wieczorek, W.F. (2002).  Substance use and the trajectory of delinquency among young males.  Journal of Crime and Justice, 25(1): 99-121.

Zhang, L., Welte, J.W., & Wieczorek, W.F. (2002).  The role of aggression-related expectancies in explaining the link between alcohol and violent behavior.  Substance Use and Misuse, 37(4): 457-471.

Hyland, A., Travers, M., Cummings, K.M., Bauer, J., & Wieczorek, W.F. (2003).  Tobacco outlet density and demographics in Erie County, New York.  American Journal of Public Health, 93, 1075-1076.

Higbee, C., Bauer, J.E., Cummings, K.M., Wieczorek, W., Alford, & T., Hyland, A. (2004). Avoidance of smoky establishments: from Erie/Niagara Counties, New York, 2002/03. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 10, 508-510.

Welte, J.W., Barnes, G.M., Wieczorek, W.F., Tidwell, M., & Parker, J. (2004).  Risk factors for pathological gambling.  Addictive Behaviors, 29, 323-335.

Welte, J.W., Barnes, G.M., Wieczorek, W.F., & Tidwell, M. (2004). Simultaneous drinking and gambling: a risk factor for pathological gambling. Substance Use and Misuse, 39, 1405-1423.

Welte, J.W., Barnes, G.M., Wieczorek, W.F., & Tidwell, M. (2004). Gambling participation and pathology in the U.S. - A sociodemographic analysis using classification trees. Addictive Behaviors, 29, 983-990.

Wieczorek, W.F. & Nochajski, T.H. (2004). Multiple treatment experiences as a predictor of continued drinking-driving. In Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety - T2004, Glasgow, Scotland.

Welte, J.W., Wieczorek, W.F., Barnes, G.M., Tidwell, M., & Hoffman, J.H. (2004). The relationship of ecological and geographical factors to gambling behavior and pathology. Journal of Gambling Studies, 20, 405-423.

Conner, K.R., Meldrum, M.S., Wieczorek, W.F., Duberstein, P.R., & Welte, J.W. (2004). The association of irritability and impulsivity with suicidal ideation among 15 to 20 year-old-males. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 34, 363-373.

Welte, J.W., Barnes, G.M., Hoffman, J.H., Wieczorek, W.F., & Zhang, L. (2005). Substance involvement and the trajectory of offending in young males. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 31, 267-284.

Wieczorek, W.F. & Nochajski, T.H. (2005). Characteristics of persistent drinking drivers: Comparisons of first, second, and multiple offenders. In Hennessy, D.A. & Wiesenthal , D.L. (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Traffic Research and Road User Safety. pp. 149-163, Nova Science: Hauppauge NY.

Welte, J.W., Wieczorek, W.F., Barnes, G.M., & Tidwell, M.C. (2006). Multiple risk factors for pathological gambling: Individual, social and ecological. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 1548-1568.

Lipton, R.I., Gorman, D., Wieczorek, W.F., Gruenewald, P.J., & Banerjee, A. (in press). Geography and public health. In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology 1-V Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Contrino, K.M., Dermen, K.H., Nochajski, T.H., Wiecaorek, W.F., & Navratil, P.K. (in press). Compliance and learning in an intervention program for partner-violent men. Journal of Interpersonal Violence