Phoenix House Appoints Dr. Deni Carise as Chief Clinical Officer - Internationally Recognized Leader in Substance Abuse Treatment an...(ect client care -- which I love -- while...),Health

As TRI's Director of the Treatment Systems Section since 1998, Dr. Carise made significant advances in the quality of substance abuse treatment through exhaustive research and the development of new interventions, systems, and technologies. She was the Principal Investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as a five-year White House-funded "Drug Evaluation Network System" (DENS). Under her direction, the DENS computer-assisted assessment system became the nation's first real-time system for tracking drug related problems and drug use trends and is still installed in over 300 drug and alcohol treatment centers and drug courts across the nation, and in use in eight countries worldwide. Dr. Carise currently has four health services grants from NIH -- including those from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She will continue her work with NIH, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and TRI on these and other projects in the future.

In addition to her work in the United States, Dr. Carise has worked extensively with treatment providers in such countries as Nigeria, Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, Greece, Singapore, Brazil, China, and others to help develop national systems that integrate scientifically-validated treatments into their treatment programs. She is also a consultant, trainer, and advisor for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Dr. Carise earned both her Bachelor's Degree and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann (now Drexel) University, followed by an internship at Homewood (part of the Johns Hopkins Health System) and Union Memorial hospitals in beha
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