Bio
Michael Dennis received his doctorate in psychology in 1988 from Northwestern University under a NIH fellowship to train more methodologists on how to do and improve the quality of behavioral health field research. Currently, Dennis is a senior research psychologist in Chestnut Health Systems’ Bloomington-Normal research office, director of Chestnut’s GAIN Coordinating Center (GCC), and an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Scientifically, Dennis is currently the principal investigator (PI) of the Smartphone Addiction Recovery Coach for Adolescents (SARC-A) experiment (DA011323) and the cross-site evaluation of Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Guidelines (2014-DC-BX-K001); Coordinating Center Multi-PI for the Juvenile Justice Translational Research for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) cooperative agreement (1U01 DA036221); and co-investigator on Dr. Christy Scott’s Recovery Initiation and Management after Overdose (RIMO) Experiment (DA045774), Recovery Management Checkups for Primary Care (RMCPC) experiment (R01 AA024440), and Smartphones Recovery Support