Dr. Denise Hien

Denise Hien, Ph.D., ABPP, is the inaugural Helen E. Chaney Endowed Chair in Alcohol Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) at Rutgers University. She is also the former Senior Vice Provost for Research, Chancellor’s Office, Rutgers-New Brunswick and CAS Director; Recognized as a leader in the field of post-traumatic stress and addictions, her body of work has contributed to the evidence base on effective interventions for individuals with PTSD and substance use disorders. She and her group have conducted programmatic research through single- and multi-site clinical trials across the United States in community-based substance abuse treatment settings, with continuous funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (27 grants total: 9 R01, 3-R25, 1 multi-site) for over 30 years.  She currently leads an NIDA R25 training grant for translational addiction research for BS/MD, MA and PhD candidates in the biomedical and social sciences, an NIMH R01 hybrid effectiveness clinical trial for PTSD+SUD, and another NIDA -funded datascience R01 Project Harmony 2.0 which extends and expands a recently completed an NIAAA R01 data science project, a meta-analysis with individual patient data examining effectiveness of treatment for PTSD and AODs. She is board-certified in clinical psychology and has served as a standing and ad hoc member on NIDA, NIAAA and NIMH Institutional Review Groups, and a health disparities advisory group to the Director of NIDA on Asian/Pacific Islander issues. Dr. Hien’s work has increased the center’s visibility in shaping the national conversation about leveraging data science to address equity in substance use treatment and policy research focusing on social determinants, including trauma, and their role in the development and maintenance of alcohol and other substance use disorders.

Dr. Hien received her B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University, and her M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her postdoctoral training in substance use research at the Division on Substance Use Disorders at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she retained a longstanding appointment as Adjunct Senior Research Scientist until 2024. Over her career, she has served on the doctoral faculties of the Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and The City College of New York. Within each of these institutions, she has held numerous leadership roles in academic and research administration.

BOOKS & ARTICLES: 

Selected Recent Publications (out of over 150: For a more complete list, see CV and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/denise.hien.1/bibliography/public/

Saraiya, T.C., Singal, S., Prakash, K., Johal, P., Hameed, S., Back, S.E., Mills, K.A., & Hien, D.A. (2025). Helping Opioid Use Disorder and PTSD with Exposure (HOPE): An open-label pilot study of a trauma-focused, integrated therapy for OUD/PTSD, Behavioral Science.

Hien, D.A., & Lopez-Castro, T. (2025). Beyond either/or: The next chapter in PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder treatment research. Editorial, American Journal of Psychiatry.

O’Neil, M., Kassam-Adams, N., Saadeh, Y., de Haan, A., Hamblen, J., Morgan-Lopez, A. & Hien, D.A.(2025). Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions in Trauma-Related Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) Data Efforts, Journal of Traumatic Stress.

Hien, D.A., Gette, J., Bauer, A., Saraiya, T., Ruglass, L.R., Lopez-Castro, T., Piccirrillo, M., Ellys, R., Best, E., Blakey, S., Ebrahimi, C., Back, S., Killeen, T., Saavedra, L., Norman, S., Saavedra, L., & Morgan-Lopez, A. (2025). How changes in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity mediate substance use disorder (SUD) severity during and after treatment for co-occurring PTSD and SUD: Results from Project Harmony, Addiction. DOI:10.1111/add.70126

Hien, D. A., Papini, S., Saavedra, L. M., Bauer, A. G., Ruglass, L. M., Ebrahimi, C. T., Fitzpatrick, S., López-Castro, T., Norman, S. B., Killeen, T. K., Back, S. E., & Morgan-López, A. A. (2024). Project harmony: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of psychotherapy and pharmacologic trials for comorbid posttraumatic stress, alcohol, and other drug use disorders. Psychological Bulletin, 150(3), 319 353. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000409

Hill ML, Kline AC, Saraiya TC, Gette J, Ruglass LM, Norman SB, Back SE, Saavedra LM, Hien DA, Morgan-López AA. (2024) Cannabis use and trauma-focused treatment for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of individual patient data. J Anxiety Disord. Mar;102:102827. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102827. Epub 2024 Jan 10. PMID: 38266511.

Ebrahimi, C. T., Polanco-Roman, L., Saraiya, T. C., Bauer, A. G., & Hien, D. (2024). Historical trauma and polysubstance use in Black young adults: The role of contemporary racism. Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy. 16(6), 922-929. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001652

Papini S, López-Castro T, Swarbrick M, Paul LK, Stanley D, Bauer A; COVID-Dynamic Team; Hien DA. Alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine use have distinct associations with COVID-19 pandemic-related experiences: An exploratory Bayesian network analysis across two timepoints. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2023 Jul 1;248:109929. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109929. Epub 2023 May 16. PMID: 37267744; PMCID: PMC10186931.

Hien, D.A., Morgan-López, A.A., Saavedra, L. et al. (2023, published online, Dec 7, 2022). Project Harmony: A meta-analysis with individual patient data of behavioral and pharmacologic trials for comorbid posttraumatic stress, alcohol and other drug use disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.22010071, PMID 36475373.

Saavedra, L.M., Morgan-Lopez, A.A., Back, S.E., Patel, S.V., Hien, D.A., Killeen, T.K., Norman, S.B., ^Fitzpatrick, S., ^Ebrahimi, C.T., Ruglass, L.M (2022). Measurement Error-Corrected Estimation of Clinically Significant Change Trajectories for Interventions targeting comorbid PTSD and SUDs in OEF/OIF Veterans, Behavior Therapy, 53(5), 1009-1023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2022.04.007

Bauer, A., Ruglass, L., Shevorykin, A., ^Saraiya, T., Robinson, G., Cadet, K., Julien, L., Chao, T., & Hien, D.(2022). Predictors of therapeutic alliance, treatment feedback, and clinical outcomes among African American women in treatment for co-occurring PTSD and SUD. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 139, 108766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2022.108766

Morgan Lopez, A., Hien, D.A., ^Saraiya, T.C., Saavedra, L., Norman, S., Killeen, T., Simpson, T., ^Fitzpatrick, S., Mills L., Ruglass, L.M., Back, S.E., López-Castro^, T., and the Consortium on Addiction, Stress and Trauma (CAST). Estimating PTSD severity in the presence of differential item functioning across populations, comorbidities and interview measures: Introduction to Project Harmony. (2022).Journal of Traumatic Stress, 35(3), 926-940. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22800

Simpson, T.L., Kaysen, D.L., Fleming, C., Rhew, I.C., Jaffe, A.E., Desai, S., Hien, D.A., Berliner, L., Donovan, D., Resick, P. (2022) Cognitive Processing Therapy or Relapse Prevention for Comorbid PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial. PLOS One Psychiatry, 17(11), e0276111-.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276111

Im, S., Fitzpatrick, S., Hien, D. A., Lopez Castro, T., Pawlak, A & Melara, R. (2022). Frontal alpha asymmetry in children with trauma exposure, Clinical EEG and Neuroscience,53, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/15500594221076346

Lopez-Castro, T., Papini, S., Bauer, A., Swarbrick, M., Paul, L. K., Nizzi, M., … Hien, D. (2022, May 26). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom trajectories in a 16-month COVID-19 pandemic period. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wpjgm

Hien, D. A, Fitzpatrick, S. et al., (2021). What’s in a name? Creating a taxonomy for PTSD-SUD treatment types: Report from a consensus meeting of the Consortium of Addiction, Stress and Trauma (CAST), Project Harmony, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(1), 2001191.

Lopez-Castro, T., Zhao, Y., Fitzpatrick, S., Ruglass, L. & Hien, D. A. (2021). Seeing the forest for the trees: Predicting attendance in trials for co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorders with a machine learning approach. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 89(10), 869–884. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000688

Saavedra, L. Morgan-Lopez, A., Hien, D. A., López-Castro, T., Ruglass L.M., Back, S. E., Fitzpatrick, S., Norman, S. B., Killeen, T., Hamblen, J. and CAST Consortium on Addictions, Stress and Trauma (CAST) Authors (2021). Evaluating treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder, alcohol and other drug use disorders using meta-analysis of individual patient data: Design and methodology of a virtual clinical trial, Contemporary Clinical Trials, 107, 106479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2021.106479

Hien, D. A., Lopez-Castro, T. Fitzpatrick, S., T., Fertuck, E., Ruglass, L., & Melara, R. (2021). Translational approaches to advance novel treatment development for PTSD and SUD. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Volume 127, 779-794, 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.05.022

Hien, D. A., Bauer, A., Franklin, L., Lalwali, T., & Pean, K. (2021). Coronavirus, opioid use, and racism: Conceptualizing the COR syndemic and its associations to traumatic stress, Psychiatric Services, 127, 779-794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.05.022

Fitzpatrick, S., Morgan-Lopez, A. A., Saraiya, T. C., Back, S. E., Killeen, T. K., Norman, S. B., Lopez-Castro, T., Ruglass, L.M., Saavedra, L. M., & Hien, D. A. (2021). Graded Response Item Response Theory in Scaling Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors among Trauma-Exposed Women with Substance Use Disorders. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 36(4), 397-409. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000757.

Polanco-Roman, L, Miranda, R., Hien., D. & Anglin, D. M. (2021). Racial/ethnic discrimination as race-based trauma and suicide-related risk in racial/ethnic minority young adults: The role of stress sensitivity and dissociation. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 13(7), 759-767. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001076

Kline, A. C., Straus, E., Lyons, R. C., Angkaw, A. C., Davis, B. C., Haller, M., Hien, D. A., & Norman, S. B. (2021). Substance use predictors of attendance among veterans in integrated PTSD and alcohol use disorder treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 124, 108278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2021.108278.

Martinez, S., Jones, J. D., Brandt, L., Hien, D. A., Campbell, A., Batchelder, S., & Comer, S. D. (2021). Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) in Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 221, 108632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108632.

Zhao, Y., Constable, R. Todd, Hien, D. A., Chung, T., Potenza, M. B. (2021). Brain anatomical covariation patterns linked to binge drinking and age at first full drink. Neuroimage: Clinical, 129 102529. Deposited to the bioRxiv Preprint 10.1101/2020.08.02.232942 has posted on bioRxiv: https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.02.232942v1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102529

Fitzpatrick, S., Norman, S., Back, S. & Hien, D. A. (2021). PTSD (16 pages). For American Psychiatric Association, Handbook of Substance Use Disorders (Eds. K. Brady & F. Levin), American Psychiatric Association Press.

Ruglass, L. M., Morgan-Lopez, A. A., Saavedra, L. M., Hien, D. A., Back., S. E., & Killeen, T. K. (2020) Measurement non-equivalence on the Clinician-administered PTSD Scale (CAPS-IV-TR) by race/ethnicity among women with co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorders. Psychological Assessment, 32(11), 1015–1027. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000943

Allan, N. P., López-Castro, T., Hien, D. A., Papini, S., Killeen, T. K., Gros, D. F., Ruglass, L. M., Barrett, E., & Back, S. E. (2020). Response-to-treatment for comorbid post-traumatic stress and substance use disorders: The value of combining person- and variable-centered approaches. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 42, 725–738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-020-09803-w

Saraiya, T., Fitzpatrick, S., Lopez-Castro, T., Back, S., Hien, D. A. (2020). The social emotional profiles of PTSD, complex PTSD, and Borderline Personality Disorder: A latent class analysis of ICD-11 criteria. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34, 56-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.22590

Allan, N. P., López-Castro, T., Hien, D. A., Papini, S., Killeen, T. K., Gros, D. F., Ruglass, L. M., Barrett, E., & Back, S. E. (2020). Response-to-treatment for comorbid post-traumatic stress and substance use disorders: The value of combining person- and variable-centered approaches. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 42, 725–738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-020-09803-w

Saraiya, T., Fitzpatrick, S., Lopez-Castro, T., Back, S., Hien, D. A. (2020). The social emotional profiles of PTSD, complex PTSD, and Borderline Personality Disorder: A latent class analysis of ICD-11 criteria. Journal of Traumatic Stress. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.22590

Saavedra, L. M., Morgan-Lopez, A.A., Hien, D. A., Back, S. E., Killeen, T.K., Ruglass, L.M., & Lopez-Castro, T. (2020). Putting the patient back in clinical significance: Using item response theory in estimating clinically significant change in treatment for PTSD and SUDs. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 34 (2), 454-466. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.22624.

Morgan-Lopez, A.A., Killeen T.K., Saavedra, L.M., Hien, D.A., Fitzpatrick, S., Ruglass, L.M., & Back, S.E. (2020). Crossover between diagnostic and empirical categorizations of full and subthreshold PTSD. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 274, 832-840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.05.031

Saraiya, T., Pavlicova, M., Hu, M., Nunes, E. V., Hien, D. A., & Campbell, A. (2020). Exploring gender differences among treatment-seekers who use opioids versus alcohol and other drugs. Women & Health, 31, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2020.1746952

Morgan-Lopez, A.A., Saavedra, L.M., Hien, D.A., Killeen, T.K., Back, S.E., Ruglass, L.M., Fitzpatrick, S., Lopez-Castro, T., & Patock-Peckham, J.A. (2020). Estimation of equable scale scores and treatment outcomes from patient- and clinician-reported PTSD measures using item response theory calibration. Psychological Assessment. 32(4), 321–335. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000789.

Saraiya, T., Lopez-Castro, T., Fareri, D., Fertuck, E., & Hien, D.A., Melara, R. (2020). The social cognitive appraisal of trustworthiness in individuals with dimensional levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms: A translational study, European Journal of Psychotraumatology. Vol 10 (1), 1697582 https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1697582

Hien, D.A., Kropp, F., Wells, E.A., Campbell, A.N., Hatch-Maillette, M., Lopez-Castro, T., Killeen, T., Ruglass, L.M., Saavedra, L. (2020). The “Women and Trauma” study and its national impact on advancing trauma specific approaches in community substance use treatment and research. For the 20^th Anniversary of the Clinical Trials Network, Special Issue in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 112, 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2020.02.003

Fitzpatrick, S., Saraiya, T., Ruglass, L.M., Lopez-Castro, T. & Hien, D.A. (2020). Trauma characteristics of age of onset of trauma and severity predict treatment outcomes in a randomized clinical trial: A secondary analysis. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Vol 113, 107976.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2020.01.012.

Saraiya, T., Swarbrick, M., Franklin, L., Kass, S. & Hien, D.A. (2020). Perspectives on trauma and the design of a technology-based trauma-informed intervention for women receiving medications for addiction treatment in a community based setting, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.112, 92-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2020.01.011

Papini, SP, Rubin, M, Powers, MB, Smits, JA, Hien, DA. (2020). Pretreatment PTSD symptom network metrics predict the strength of the association between node change and network change during treatment, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol 33 (1), 64-71. https://doi.org:10.1002/jts.22379

Hien, D.A., Litt, L., Lopez-Castro, T, Ruglass, L. (2020). Treatment of Addictions (25 pages). For Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced Relationship Based Approach-2^nd Edition (Eds. C. Courtois & J. Ford), Guilford Press.

Lopez-Castro, T., Smith, K.Z., Nicholson, R.A., Armas, A. & Hien, D.A. (2019). Does a history of violent offending impact treatment response for comorbid PTSD and substance use disorders? A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 97, 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2018.11.009

Saraiya, T., Zumberg, K., Campbell, A., & Hien, DA. (2019). Posttraumatic stress symptoms, shame, and substance use among Asian Americans, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 96, 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2018.10.002.

Ruglass, LM, Zumberg, K., Killeen, T. & Hien, D.A. (2019). Principles and recommendations for implementing psychopharmacology for the treatment of psychological disorders: Trauma related disorders (50 pages). Handbook of Psychopharmacology (Eds. S. Evans & K. Carpenter), American Psychological Association Press.

Litt, L., Cohen, L.R. & Hien, D.A. (2019). Seeking Safety: A present-focused integrated treatment for PTSD and SUD. In A. Vujanovic & S. Back (Eds.) Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders: A Comprehensive Clinical Handbook (pp. 183-207). Routledge Press.

Hien, DA, Zumberg, K., Owens, M, Lopez-Castro, T, Ruglass, L, & Papini, S. (2018). Lagged effects of symptom change in a randomized controlled trial for PTSD and substance use disorders with modified prolonged exposure and relapse prevention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 86 (10), 810-819. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000345

Melara, R, Singh, S, Hien, DA. (2018). Neural and behavioral correlates of attentional inhibition training and perceptual discrimination training in a visual flanker task. Frontiers in Neuroscience. Vol 12, Article 191. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00191

Melara, R, Ruglass, LM, Fertuck, E & Hien, DA. (2018). Regulation of threat in post-traumatic stress disorder: Associations between inhibitory control and dissociative symptoms. Biological Psychology, 133, 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.01.017

Chao, T, Radoncic, V, Hien, DA, Bedi, G & Haney, M. (2018). Stress responding in cannabis smokers as a function of trauma exposure, sex, and relapse in the human laboratory. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 185, 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.11.021

Maru, M., Saraiya, T., Lee, C., Meghania, O., Hien, DA, & Hahm, H. (2018). The relationship between intimate partner violence and suicidal ideation among young Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese American women, Women and Therapy. 41:3-4, 339-355. https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2018.1430381

Radoncic, V., Marcoux, B., & Hien, D. A. (2018). Self-management in addictive disorders. In. E. Martz (Ed.) Promoting self-management of chronic health conditions: Theories and practice (pp. 147-170). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190606145.003.0007

Research Interests

Effects of trauma exposures and addiction on the mind and body; intergenerational trauma and the impact of parental history on child functioning; the role of threat-related cognitive processing in the development and maintenance of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and associated interpersonal impairments; efficacy of treatment interventions for co-occurring PTSD and addiction; psychophysiological (EEG) predictors of social emotions related to trauma and PTSD; multicultural/diversity barriers in mentoring in social sciences; Leveraging data science to address equity in substance use treatment research. 

Board Certification in Clinical Psychology (ABPP), 30 years in private practice working with traumatic stress and addiction related disorders, evidence-based assessment and treatment of PTSD and SUD, clinical supervisor and mentor, consulting for legal cases on physical and sexual abuse in the women’s prison population by prison guards. Licensed psychologist in New York State, New Jersey, and PSYPACT.

Recent and Active  Support (see CV for past support):

2020-2030 Scientific Advisory Board Member, Diversity in Addiction Research Training at the Medical University of South Carolina, (DART) (PIs: Sudie Back, Ph.D. & Kathleen Brady, M.D., Ph.D.) at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), (National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH R25 DA020537, $2.0 million

2020-2031 Principal Investigator, Translational Research Training in Addictions at City College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (TRACC) (MPI: Ruglass, CCNY; Co-I’s: Frances R. Levin, M.D., Aimee Campbell, Ph.D., Francine Conway, Ph.D., Robert Melara, Ph.D., Mauricio Trevisan, M.D.), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) R25 Renewal, Total Direct and Indirect Costs $2.0 Million. Renewal scored 20, 10.24.2024. PO requested JIT submitted 4/2025. Refunded 6.30.2025.

2025-2029 Principal Investigator, Project Harmony 2.0: Individual Patient Meta-analysis of Clinical Significance Trajectories for PTSD/SUD (MPI: Morgan-Lopez, Ph.D., RTI International; Co-I’s: Saavedra, Ph.D., RTI International, Ruglass, Ph.D., & Lopez-Castro, Ph.D., City College of New York, Back, Ph.D. & Killeen, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina, Norman, Ph.D., University of California San Diego, University of Minnesota), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) R01, Total Direct and Indirect Costs 3.3 Million. Submitted Nov 17, 2023. Scored 20, 10.30.2024. Funded 6.2.2025

2025-2032 Site Principal Investigator, New York Node of the Clinical Trials Network (renewal GY24) UG1DA013035 NIDA (PD/PI: McNeely, J. (Contact) & Campbell, A (MPIs) NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Total Award Amount
$5,622,180

2021-2026 Scientific Advisory Board Member, Enhancing Diversity in Alcohol Research (EDAR) program (PI: Julianne Flanagan, Ph.D.), National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, R25.

2021-2023 Scientific Advisory Board Member. Archiving and Harmonizing Data on Prevention and Treatment of Child Traumatic Stress (PI: Nancy Kassam-Adams, Ph.D.), National Institute of Mental Health, R03.

2021-2026 Scientific Partner, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) (PI: Lisa Marsch, Ph.D), National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH-NIDA funded P30.

2021-2026 Mentor, LEAD Program, (PIs: Carmen Masson, Gideon St. Helen), R25, NIDA.

2022-2027 Mentor, FLORIDA-FIRST Health Sciences Brigade, National Institutes of Health, (PI: Frankie Wong, Ph.D.), U54 NIH.

2023-2028 Co-Investigator, Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of Massed PTSD Treatment with Veterans in Substance Use Treatment (MPI: Norman, Ph.D., University of California San Diego; Co-I’s: Kehle-Forbes, University of Minnesota), Veterans Administration, Total Direct and Indirect Costs 2.4 Million.

2023-2029 Consultant/Scientific Advisor, “Project HOPE: Stepped Care for IPV PTSD” (PIs: Tami Sullivan, Dawn Johnson, Edelman), NIDA R33/R61 Total and Direct Costs 3.5 Million, National Institute on Drug Abuse R61/R33.

2024-2029 Principal Investigator, “Project COMET: Massed Prolonged Exposure for PTSD+SUD in Community Addition Treatment Programs” (MPI: Sonya Norman, Ph.D.), National Institute on Mental Health (NIH) R01, Total Direct and Indirect Costs $3.8 Million.

Hien, D. (2023). Letter of Appreciation for Service, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care Program.

Hien, D. (2023). Inaugural Mary Jean Kreek Award for Underserved Populations, College on Problems of Drug Dependence.

Hien, D. (2023). Award for Excellence in Trauma Services for the Underserved: Policy, Advocacy, Research and Clinical, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Hien, D. (2022). Nominee, Lifetime Achievement Award. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Hien, D. (2022). Nominee, Award for Excellence in Trauma Services for the Underserved: Policy, Advocacy, Research and Clinical. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Hien, D. (2022 and 2020). Certificate of Appreciation. New York Army National Guard, recognizing the contribution of trauma and mental health resources for National Guard soldiers on the COVID-19 mortuary affairs mission.

Hien, D. (2022). Nominee, Marian W. Fischman Memorial Lecture Award, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, recognizing the contributions of an outstanding woman scientist in drug abuse research.

Hien, D. (2022). Nominee, Board of Governors, College on Problems of Drug Dependence

Hien, D. (2020). Inaugural Helen E. Chaney Endowed Chair in Alcohol Studies. Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Hien, D. (2020). Eminent Scholar Mentorship Award. UMBC, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, for work with Rebecca Schact, Ph.D.

Hien, D. (2019). Honoree, Humanitarian of the Year, Empowering Futures, Transforming Communities Gala. Center for Great Expectations, New Jersey.

Hien, D. (2019). Elected Member. The College on Problems of Drug Dependence.

Hien, D. (2018). Elected Advisory Board Member for DART Program. Medical University of South Carolina.