Douglas Wiebe

Douglas James Wiebe
Fields Public health, epidemiology, biostatistics
Institutions University of Pennsylvania
Alma mater University of California, Irvine
Thesis Lifestyle risk factors for homicide (2000)
Notable awards Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Douglas James Wiebe is associate professor of epidemiology at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education

Wiebe received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Calgary in 1991, his M.A. in Criminology from Indiana State University in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine in 2000.[1] He then completed postdoctoral studies in injury epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.[2]

Career

From 2009 to 2014 he held an appointment of Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, England.[2]

Research

Wiebe's research covers topics such as risk factors for injury, alcohol use, and the effect of daily routines on health behaviors.[1] In 2003, he published a study that concluded that having a gun in the home increased the risk of homicide and suicide. The same study concluded that 41% of gun homicides and 94% of gun suicides would not happen without access to guns.[3][4] In 2009, he co-authored a study that found that gun owners were more likely to be shot in an assault than were non-gun owners,[5] which has been credited with persuading the United States Congress to extend the Dickey Amendment to include the National Institutes of Health (which funded the study) two years later.[6] In 2015, he co-authored another study that found that someone's location and how they got there both affected their risk of violent victimization.[7]

Honors, awards and positions

Wiebe is a member of the American College of Epidemiology and of the Board of Directors of SAVIR (Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research), serves as a reviewer for journals including the American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Epidemiology, British Medical Journal, and Pediatrics, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Trauma, and serves on study sections for the Center for Scientific Review at the NIH, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.[1] He received the Teaching Award in the Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology Program in 2008/09, and in the Perelman School of Medicine in 2012 he received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Basic Science Teaching.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Douglas Wiebe". Perelman School of Medicine website. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "People". Space Time Epi Group website. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Wiebe, Douglas J. (June 2003). "Homicide and suicide risks associated with firearms in the home: A national case-control study". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 41 (6): 771–782. doi:10.1067/mem.2003.187.
  4. ↑ Moisse, Katie (3 June 2011). "Florida Law Bans Doctors From Asking About Guns". ABC News. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Branas, Charles C.; Richmond, Therese S.; Culhane, Dennis P.; Ten Have, Thomas R.; Wiebe, Douglas J. (November 2009). "Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault". American Journal of Public Health. 99 (11): 2034–2040. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.143099.
  6. ↑ Stein, Sam (6 October 2015). "The Congressman Who Restricted Gun Violence Research Has Regrets". Huffington Post. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  7. ↑ Takiff, Jonathan (8 December 2015). "Location a key factor in violence risk, Penn study finds". Philly.com. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
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