Lance S. Weinhardt, PhD
Associate Professor; Director, CAIR Developmental Core
lsw@mcw.edu
Dr. Weinhardt's research interests include developing interventions for multiple risk behaviors, developing intervention approaches that can be implemented in resource poor settings, and the use of technology in intervention and assessment.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone: 414.955.7700
Fax: 414.287.4206
EDUCATION
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Syracuse University, 1999
Clinical Psychology Internship - University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1998-1999
MS, Clinical Psychology, Syracuse University, 1997
BS, Psychology, Minor: Computer Science, Indiana State University, 1993
AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
Syracuse University Graduate Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship, Graduate Summer Fellowship, Administrative Assistantship, 1993-1998
National Institute of Mental Health National Research Service Award, Individual Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1998
Service Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine, 1996
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2000
Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition, National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2000-2002
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Mosack, K.E., Weinhardt, L.S., Kelly, J.A., Gore-Felton, C., McAuliffe, T.L., Johnson, M.O., Remien, R.H., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Ehrhardt, A.A., Chesney, M.A., & Morin, S. (in press). Influence of coping, social support, and depression on subjective health status among HIV-positive adults with different sexual identities. Behavioral Medicine.
Benotsch, E. G., Wright, V. J., deRoon Cassini, T. A., Pinkerton, S. D., Weinhardt, L. S., & Kelly, J. A. (2006). Computer capacity and use of the Internet for HIV prevention by AIDS service organizations in the United States. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 24, 19-35.
Kalichman, S.C., Cherry, C., Cain, D., Weinhardt, L.S., Benotsch, E., Pope, H., Kalichman, M. (2006). Health information on the Internet and people living with HIV/AIDS: Information evaluation and coping styles. Health Psychology, 25, 205-210.
Weinhardt, L. S. (2005). The effects of HIV diagnosis on sexual risk behavior. In Seth C. Kalichman (Ed.). Positive Prevention: Reducing risk among people living with HIV. New York: Kluwer.
Weinhardt, L. S. (2005). Changing HIV related behavior: New and promising interventions at the individual, group, and community level. Behavior Modification, 29, 219-226.
Kalichman, S. C., Weinhardt, L. S., Benotsch, E. G., Zweben, A., Bjodstrup, B., Cain, D., & Swain G. R. (2005). Experimental components analysis of brief theory-based HIV-AIDS risk reduction counseling for sexually transmitted infection patients. Health Psychology, 24, 198-208.
Gore-Felton, C., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Weinhardt, L.S., Kelly, J.A., Lightfoot, M., Kirshenbaum, S.B., Johnson, M.O., Chesney, M.A., Catz, S.L., Ehrhardt, A.A., Remien, R.H., Morin, S.F. , & the NIMH Healthy Living Project Team. (2005). The Healthy Living Project: An Individually-Tailored, Multidimensional Intervention for HIV-Infected Persons. AIDS Education and Prevention, 17, 21-39.
Goldstein, R. B., Johnson, M. O.., Weinhardt, L. S., Remien, R., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Lightfoot, M., Catz, S. L., Gore-Felton, C., Kirshenbaum, S. L., Morin, S. & the NIMH Healthy Living Project Team (2005). Insurance coverage and indices of quality of care among adults living with HIV: Findings from the Health Living Project. Medical Care, 43, 401-410.
Goldstein, R.B., Johnson, M.O., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Kirshenbaum, S.B., Pinto, R.M., Kittel, L., Pequegnat, W., Mickalian, J.D., Weinhardt, L.S., Kelly, J.A., Lightfoot, M., and the NIMH Healthy Living Project Team (2005). Psychological distress, substance use, and adjustment among parents living with HIV. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, 18, 362-373.
Lightfoot, M. A., Rogers, T., Goldstein, R. B., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., May, S., Kirshenbaum, S., Weinhardt, L. S., Zadoretzky, C., Kittell, L., Johnson, M., Gore-Felton, C., Morin, S., and the NIMH Healthy Living Project Team. (2005). Predictors of substance use frequency and reductions in seriousness among persons living with HIV. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 77, 129-138.
Morin, S.F., Steward, W.T., Charlebois, E.D., Remien, R.H., Pinkerton, S.D., Johnson, M.O., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Lightfoot, M., Goldstein, R.B., Kittel, L., Samimy-Muzaffar, F., Weinhardt, L.S., Kelly, J.A., and Chesney, M.A. (2005). Predicting HIV transmission risk among HIV-infected men who have sex with men: Findings from the Healthy Living Project. JAIDS, 40, 226-235.
Kelly, J. A., Somlai, A. M., Benotsch, E. G., McAuliffe, T. L., Amirkhanian, Y., Brown, K. D., Stevenson, L. Y., Fernandez, M. I., Sitzler, C., Gore-Felton, C., Pinkerton, S. D., Weinhardt, L. S., & Opgenorth, K. M. (2004). Distance communication transfer of HIV prevention interventions to service providers. Science, 305, 1953-1955.
Weinhardt, L. S., Kelly, J. A., Brondino, M. J., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Kirshenbaum, S., Chesney, M., Remien, R. H., Morin, S. Lightfoot, M., Ehrhardt, A. A., Johnson, M. O., Catz, S. L., Pinkerton, S. D., Benotsch, E. G., Gore-Felton, C., Hong, D., and the NIMH Healthy Living Project Team. (2004). HIV transmission risk behavior among men and women living with HIV in four cities in the United States. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 35, 1057-1066.
Johnson, M. O., Catz, S. L., Remien, R.H., Morin, S.F., Chesney, M..A., Rotheram-Borus M.J., Lightfoot, M., Goldstein, R.B., Wolfe H., Gore-Felton, C. and the NIMH Healthy Living Project Team (Weinhardt Co-PI Milwaukee Site). (2004). The need for individualized, multi-faceted interventions for HIV medication adherence: Findings from the Healthy Living Project. AIDS Patient Care and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 17, 645-656.
Johnson-Masotti, A. P., Weinhardt, L. S., Pinkerton, S. D., Otto-Salaj, L. L. (2003). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the first generation of HIV prevention interventions for people with severe and persistent mental illness. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 6, 23-35.
Kalichman, S. C., Benotsch, E., & Weinhardt, L. S. (2003). Internet use for health information, quality of life, and health among people living with HIV/AIDS. Health Psychology, 22, 111-116.
Remien, R. H., Hirky, A. E., Johnson, M. O., Weinhardt, L. S., Whittier, D., & Le, G. M. (2003). Adherence to medication treatment: A qualitative study of facilitators and barriers among a diverse sample of HIV+ men and women in four U.S. cities. AIDS and Behavior, 7, 61-72.
Weinhardt, L. S. (2002). Effects of a detailed sexual behavior interview on perceived risk for HIV infection: Experimental analysis in a high-risk sample. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 25, 195-203.
Kalichman, S. C., Weinhardt, L. S., DiFonzo, K., Austin, J., & Luke, W. (2002). Sensation seeking and alcohol use as markers of sexual transmission risk behavior in HIV positive men. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 24,229-235.
Weinhardt, L. S., Otto-Salaj, L. L., Brondino, M. J., Norberg, M., & Kalichman, S. C. (2002). Sex related alcohol expectancies predict HIV risk behavior among adults with severe mental illness. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 16, 64-67.
Kalichman, S. C.,Weinhardt, L. S., Benotsch, E., Rompa, D., DiFonzo, K., Luke, W., Simpson, D., Kyomugrsha, F., & Austin, J. (2002). Internet access and internet use for health information among people living with HIV-AIDS. Patient Education and Counseling, 46, 109-116.
Kalichman, S.C., Benotsch, E., Weinhardt, L. S., Austin, J., and Luke, W. (2002). Internet use among people living with HIV/AIDS: Association of health information, health behaviors, and health status. AIDS Education and Prevention, 14, 51-61.
Kalichman, S. C., Weinhardt, L. S., & Benotsch, E. (2002). Closing the digital divide in AIDS care: Development of a theory-based intervention to increase internet access. AIDS Care, 14, 523-537.
Kalichman, S. C., Benotsch. E., & Weinhardt, L. S. (2001). Health information on the internet and the digital divide: Letter to the editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, 286, 2092-2093.
Kalichman, S. C. & Weinhardt, L. S. (2001). Negative affect and sexual risk behavior: Editorial Comment. Health Psychology, 4, 300-301.
Carey, M. P., Carey, K. B., Maisto, S. A., Gordon, C. M., & Weinhardt, L. S. (2001). Assessing sexual risk behavior with the timeline followback approach: Continued development and psychometric evaluation. International Journal of STDs and AIDS, 12, 365-375.
Bellack, A. S., Weinhardt, L. S., Gold, J., & Gearon, J. S. (2001). Generalization of training effects in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 48, 255-262.
Weinhardt, L. S., Carey, M. P., Carey, K. B., Maisto, S. A., & Gordon, C. M. (2001). The relation of alcohol use to sexual HIV risk behavior among adults with severe and persistent mental illness. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69, 77-84.
Weinhardt, L. S., & Carey, M. P. (2000). Does alcohol lead to sexual risk behavior? Findings from event-level research. Annual Review of Sex Research, 11, 125-157.
Weinhardt, L. S., Carey, K. B., & Carey, M. P. (2000). HIV-risk-sensitization following a detailed sexual behavior interview: A preliminary investigation. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 23, 393-398.
Weinhardt, L. S., & Carey, M. P. (2000). Human immunodeficiency virus testing and behavior change: Letter to the editor. Archives of Internal Medicine, 160, 1538-1539.
Weinhardt, L. S., Carey, M. P., Johnson, B. T., & Bickham, N. L. (2000). History of HIV testing: Response to Kamb et al. American Journal of Public Health, 90, 1152-1153.
Weinhardt, L. S., Carey, M. P., Johnson, B. T., & Bickham, N. L. (1999). Effects of HIV counseling and testing on sexual risk behavior: Meta-analysis of published research, 1985-1997. American Journal of Public Health, 89, 1397-1405.
Weinhardt, L. S., Bickham, N. L., & Carey, M. P. (1999). Sexual coercion among women with severe and persistent mental illness: Review of the literature and recommendations for mental health care providers. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 4, 307-317.
Gordon, C. M., Carey, M. P., Carey, K. B., Maisto, S. A., & Weinhardt, L. S. (1999). Understanding HIV-related risk among adults with a severe and persistent mental illness: Insights from qualitative inquiry. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, 208-216.
Weinhardt, L. S., Carey, M. P., Carey, K. B., & Verdecias, R. N. (1998). Increasing assertiveness skills to reduce HIV risk among women living with a severe and persistent mental illness. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 680-684.
Weinhardt, L. S., Carey, M. P., Maisto, S. A., Carey, K. B., Cohen, M. M., & Wickramasinghe, S. M. (1998). Reliability of the timeline followback sexual behavior interview. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 20, 25-30.
Weinhardt, L. S., Forsyth, A. D., Carey, M. P., Jaworski, B. C., & Durant, L. E. (1998). Reliability and validity of self-reported HIV-risk behavior: Progress since 1990 and recommendations for research and practice. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 27, 155-180.
Weinhardt, L. S., Carey, M. P., & Carey, K. B. (1998). HIV-risk behavior and the public health context of HIV/AIDS among women living with a severe and persistent mental illness. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 186, 276-282.