The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a major research component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is recruiting for a senior executive to serve as the Director of the Division of Treatment and Recovery Research (DTRR).
The Director, DTRR, provides national leadership for research on the treatment of alcohol use disorders, including setting scientific priorities through the development of long-term strategic plans and execution of funding decisions. In this capacity, the Director, DTRR, leads the Division’s efforts on planning, stimulating, developing, and supporting clinical research on cutting-edge therapies for alcoholism. Clinical research at the NIAAA encompasses medications development, behavioral therapies, combined medications and behavioral therapies, recovery research, health services research, and the translation of research into clinical practice. Medications development is one of the NIAAA’s top research priorities. The Director, DTRR, oversees the NIAAA’s work on the full continuum of research included under medications development—from human laboratory studies to clinical trials, which requires close collaboration with internal and external scientists and researchers with other Federal State and Local government agencies, and national and international research organizations. The Director, DTRR, serves as the principal advisor to the Director, NIAAA on alcohol treatment and recovery issues and advises the National Advisory Council on pending grant applications and the status of programs in the federal and private sector.
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