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Drs. Michael Dennis and Christy Scott earn Hazelden's 2011 Dan Anderson Research Award.
Study shows young adults want to recover from addiction but need help to make it happen.
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Butler Center for Research
Dan Anderson Research Award
Sponsored by Hazelden's Butler Center for Research, the Dan Anderson Research Award
recognizes a single published article by a researcher who has advanced the scientific knowledge of addiction recovery. The award is named after the late Dan Anderson, Ph.D., one of the major architects of the Minnesota Model of treatment. The recipient will receive an award, a $2,000 honorarium, and travel expenses to Hazelden for the award presentation.
2011 Dan Anderson Award recipient- Dr. Mike Dennis and Dr. Chris Scott

Michael L. Dennis, Ph.D., Senior Research Psychologist at the Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems, and Christy K. Scott, Ph.D., Research Psychologist at the Lighthouse Institute have both earned the latest Dan Anderson Research Award for their long-term outcomes study examining the effectiveness of Recovery Management Checkups on treatment outcomes among adults attending alcohol/drug treatment. Sponsored by the Butler Center for Research at Hazelden, the award honors a single published article by a researcher who has advanced the scientific knowledge of addiction treatment and recovery. read
Other Dan Anderson Research Award recipients
- 2010 - Helen Pettinati, Ph.D., Director of the Addiction Treatment Research and Medication Development Division, Center for the Studies of Addiction, University of Pennsylvania
- 2009 - Kypros Kypri, Ph.D., senior research fellow at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia
- 2008 - Markus Heilig, M.D., Ph.D., clinical director at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- 2006 - Rudolph Moos, Ph.D., Department of Veterans Affairs
- 2005 - Reid K. Hester, Ph.D., Behavior Therapy Associates, LLP
- 2004 - Stephanie S. O'Malley, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine
- 2003 - Howard A. Liddle, Ed.D., University of Miami School of Medicine
- 2002 - Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
- 2001 - Bankole Johnson, Ph.D., University of Texas
- 2000 - Henri Begleiter, Ph.D., State Univ. of New York
- 1999 - Richard Longabaugh, Ed.D., Brown University
- 1998 - Dace Svikis, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
- 1997 - Michael C. Fiore, M.D., M.P.H., University of Wisconsin
- 1996 - Stephen T. Higgins, Ph.D., University of Vermont

