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Mark Wolfson, Ph.D.

Mark Wolfson, Ph.D.

Section Head, Social Sciences & Health Policy
Professor, Social Sciences & Health Policy
Women's Health Center of Excellence for Research, Leadership, Education
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Translational Science Institute
Pediatrics
Translational Science Institute
Contact Information
Office:
336-716-0380
Email: mwolfson@wakehealth.edu
Education & Training
  BA Indiana University-Bloomington 1977
  MA Catholic University of America 1985
  PhD Catholic University of America 1988
Fellowship Stanford University 1989
  University of California-Berkeley 1990
Memberships
Society for Prevention Research
American Evaluation Association
American Public Health Association
American Sociological Association
Mark Wolfson, Ph.D.

Mark Wolfson, Ph.D.

Section Head, Social Sciences & Health Policy
Professor, Social Sciences & Health Policy
Women's Health Center of Excellence for Research, Leadership, Education
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Translational Science Institute
Pediatrics
Translational Science Institute
Contact Information
Office:
336-716-0380
Email: mwolfson@wakehealth.edu
Research Interests
cross(mult/tnslat/inter)discip , education outreach , health services, research/outc , information sciences , prevention , substance abuse
Recent Publications
Song EY, Smiler AP, Wagoner KG, Wolfson M. Everyone says it's ok: adolescents' perceptions of peer, parent, and community alcohol norms, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related consequences. Subst Use Misuse. 2012; 47(1):86-98.

Sutfin EL, McNamara RS, Blocker JN, Ip EH, O'Brien MC, Wolfson M. Screening and brief intervention for tobacco use by student health providers on college campuses. J Am Coll Health. 2012; 60(1):66-73.

Rhodes SD, McCoy TP, Hergenrather KC, Vissman AT, Wolfson M, Alonzo J, Bloom FR, Alegria-Ortega J, Eng E. Prevalence estimates of health risk behaviors of immigrant Latino men who have sex with men. J Rural Health. 2012; 28(1):73-83.

Sutfin EL, McCoy TP, Berg CJ, Champion H, Helme DW, O'Brien MC, Wolfson M. Tobacco use by college students: a comparison of daily and nondaily smokers. Am J Health Behav. 2012; 36(2):218-229.

Sutfin EL, McCoy TP, Reboussin BA, Wagoner KG, Spangler J, Wolfson M. Prevalence and correlates of waterpipe tobacco smoking by college students in North Carolina. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2011; 115(1-2):131-136.

Wolfson M, Champion H, Rogers T, Neiberg RH, Barker DC, Talton JW, Ip EH, D'Agostino RB Jr, Parries MT, Easterling D. Evaluation of free to grow: head start partnerships to promote substance-free communities. Eval Rev. 2011; 35(2):153-188.

Reboussin BA, Song E-Y, Wolfson M. The impact of alcohol outlet density on the geographic clustering of underage drinking behaviors within census tracts. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2011; 35(8):1541-1549.

Reboussin BA, Preisser JS, Song E-Y, Wolfson M. Geographic clustering of underage drinking and the influence of community characteristics. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2010; 106(1):38-47.

Wolfson M, Parries M. The institutionalization of community action in public health. In: Banaszak-Holl J, Levitsky S, Zald MN, eds. Social movements and the transformation of American health care. New York: Oxford University Press; 2010: 117-127.

Rhodes SD, Hergenrather KC, Aronson RE, Bloom FR, Felizzola J, Wolfson M, Vissman AT, Alonzo J, Boeving Allen A, McGuire J, et al. Latino men who have sex with men and HIV in the rural south-eastern USA: findings from ethnographic in-depth interviews. Cult Health Sex. 2010; 12(7):797-812.

Wagoner KG, Rhodes SD, Lentz AW, Wolfson M. Community organizing goes to college: a practice-based model to implement environmental strategies to reduce high-risk drinking on college campuses. Health Promot Pract. 2010; 11(6):817-827.

Song E-Y, Reboussin BA, Foley KL, Kaltenbach LA, Wagoner KG, Wolfson M. Selected community characteristics and underage drinking. Subst Use Misuse. 2009; 44(2):179-194.

Sutfin EL, Reboussin BA, McCoy TP, Wolfson M. Are college student smokers really a homogeneous group? A latent class analysis of college student smokers. Nicotine Tob Res. 2009; 11(4):444-454.

McCoy TP, Ip EH, Blocker JN, Champion H, Rhodes SD, Wagoner KG, Mitra A, Wolfson M. Attrition bias in a U.S. Internet survey of alcohol use among college freshmen. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2009; 70(4):606-614.

Wolfson M, McCoy TP, Sutfin EL. College students' exposure to secondhand smoke. Nicotine Tob Res. 2009; 11(8):977-984.

Rhodes SD, McCoy TP, Wilkin AM, Wolfson M. Behavioral risk disparities in a random sample of self-identifying gay and non-gay male university students. J Homosex. 2009; 56(8):1083-1100.

Rhodes SD, McCoy TP, Omli MR, Cohen GM, Wagoner KG, Durant RH, Vissman AT, Wolfson M. The negative consequences of other students' drinking: inventory development and assessment of differences by student characteristics and risk behaviors. Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2009; 21(4):519-529.

DuRant RH, Neiberg R, Champion H, Rhodes SD, Wolfson M. Viewing professional wrestling on television and engaging in violent and other health risk behaviors. South Med J. 2008; 101(2):129-137.

O'Brien MC, McCoy TP, Rhodes SD, Wagoner A, Wolfson M. Caffeinated cocktails: energy drink consumption, high-risk drinking, and alcohol-related consequences among college students. Acad Emerg Med. 2008; 15(5):453-460.

Reboussin BA, Ip EH, Wolfson M. Locally dependent latent class models with covariates: an application to under-age drinking in the USA. J R Stat Soc Ser A Stat Soc. 2008; 171(4):877-897.

DuRant RH, Neiberg R, Champion H, Rhodes S, Wolfson M. Viewing professional wrestling on television and engaging in violent and other health risk behaviors by a national sample of adolescents [abstract]. J Adolesc Health. 2007; 40(2 Suppl):S26.

DuRant R, Champion H, Wolfson M, Omli M, McCoy T, D'Agostino RB Jr, Wagoner K, Mitra A. Date fighting experiences among college students: are they associated with other health-risk behaviors?. J Am Coll Health. 2007; 55(5):291-296.

Young ML, Preisser JS, Qaqish BF, Wolfson M. Comparison of subject-specific and population averaged models for count data from cluster-unit intervention trials. Stat Methods Med Res. 2007; 16(2):167-184.

Preisser JS, Reboussin BA, Song E-Y, Wolfson M. The importance and role of intracluster correlations in planning cluster trials. Epidemiology. 2007; 18(5):552-560.

Lu B, Preisser JS, Qaqish BF, Suchindran C, Bangdiwala SI, Wolfson M. A comparison of two bias-corrected covariance estimators for generalized estimating equations. Biometrics. 2007; 63(3):935-941.

Champion H, Sutfin EL, McCoy TP, O'Brien MC, Cohen G, DuRant RH, Wolfson M. Non-prescription use of stimulants among college students: associations with alcohol and other substance use [abstract]. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2007; 31(6 Suppl 2):168A.

Wolfson M, DuRant R, Champion H, Ip E, McCoy T, O'Brien MC, Rhodes SD, Sutfin E, Martin BA, Wagoner K. Impact of a group-randomized trial to reduce high risk drinking by college students [abstract]. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2007; 31(6 Suppl 2):115A.

Wagoner KG, Song E, Giles S, Wolfson M. Tastes great or less filling? Weight management behaviors, beer choice and gender differences in adolescents [abstract]. J Womens Health. 2006; 15(4):467.

Reboussin BA, Song E-Y, Shrestha A, Lohman KK, Wolfson M. A latent class analysis of underage problem drinking: evidence from a community sample of 16-20 year olds. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2006; 83(3):199-209.

DuRant RH, Champion H, Wolfson M. The relationship between watching professional wrestling on television and engaging in date fighting among high school students. Pediatrics. 2006; 118(2):e265-e272.

Reboussin BA, Lohman KK, Wolfson M. Modeling adolescent drug use patterns in cluster-unit trials with multiple sources of correlation using robust latent class regressions. Ann Epidemiol. 2006; 16(11):850-859.

O'Brien MC, Champion H, D'Agostino RB, Martin BA, McCoy TP, Wolfson M, DuRant RH. How ready are colleges for an environmental approach that utilizes campus/community coalitions?. Int Q Community Health Educ. 2006; 25(3):295-305.
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