Deni Carise
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Deni Carise, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist and part of the recovery community for over 30 years. Considered an international expert on substance use disorders and their treatment, Dr. Carise is committed to the accurate portrayal of addiction, treatment, and recovery in the media. She has consulted on Martin Scorsese's film, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), working with the primary actors on depicting characters who are abusing cocaine and other drugs, and has been instrumental in other movies and screen plays accurately depicting drug abuse, treatment and recovery. She has also been featured in segments of Nightline, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS and NBS evening news, Access Hollywood, New York news and has been quoted in popular newsprint media such as US News and World Report, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Weekly, NIDA Notes and others. Dr. Carise has presented over 200 lectures by invitation (approximately 35 internationally). She is also a frequent blogger on Huffington Post on topics including treatment, recovery, prescription drug abuse, the media's portrayal of drug problems, and emerging drug trends.
She has worked extensively internationally, with treatment providers in Nigeria, Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, Greece, Singapore, Brazil, and China and numerous other countries.
Dr Carise is Chief Scientific Officer of Recovery Centers of America (RCA), a start-up company that has raised over $500 million to address the addiction problem in the US. She previously served as Deputy Chief Clinical Officer of CRC Health Group and Chief Clinical Officer at Phoenix House, both with over 100 treatment programs addressing behavioral health disorders. She was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Office of National Drug Control Policy as a scientist and was Director of the Treatment Systems Section at Treatment Research Institute. At TRI 16 years (1994 to 2010), she made significant advances in the quality of substance abuse treatment through the development, application, and research of new interventions, systems, and technologies through receipt of numerous NIH and other federal grants. She has published over 100 articles, books, and chapters.
Dr Carise is currently an Adjunct Clinical Asst. Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine (since 1997). She earned both her B.S. and PhD in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann (now Drexel) University and completed a NIDA Post-Doctoral fellowship at the Center for Studies of Addiction in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania from 1993-1996.
She was grew up outside Philadelphia in Willow Grove Pennsylvania and currently lives in the Philadelphia area.