Dan Squires
Assistant Professor (Research)
Department of Community Health
Phone: +1 401 863 6605
Degrees
PhD, MPH
Biography
Dr. Squires received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of New Mexico in 2004, where he also received a master’s degree in public health. He completed his clinical psychology internship through the Brown University Clinical Psychology Internship Consortium in 2004, and went on to complete a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Alcohol Treatment and Early Intervention Research at the Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies at Brown. In 2006, Dr. Squires became Director of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England at the Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, and joined the research faculty in the Department of Community Health at Brown in the same year.
Interests
Dr. Squires’ work focuses on the dissemination of evidence-guided practices for the treatment of substance use disorders. He is currently the PI/Director for the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England, and conducts research designed to evaluate comprehensive organizational change and training models for alcohol and other drug treatment organizations and providers.
Professional Licenses
Psychologist, State of Rhode Island (License No. 980) 2006-
Awards
Benjamin Franklin Haught Memorial Research Lecture Award, University of New Mexico Department of Psychology, 2004
Research Society on Alcoholism Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award Finalist, 2002
Affiliations
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association Division 50 (Addictions)
American Psychological Association Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse)
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
ABCT Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group
Research Society on Alcoholism
Funded Research
1 F31 AA14056-01 Squires (PI) 9/20/02-9/19/03
NIH/NIAAA
Diffusing a PC-Based Intervention for Problem Drinkers
The goal of this proposal was to evaluate the adoption of an interactive computer (PC)-based program for problem drinking by a sample of treatment providers across 10 treatment sites.
1 L30 AA015252-01 Squires (PI) 6/1/04-5/31/07
NIH/NIAAA
Disseminating Novel Treatments for Problem Drinking
The goal of this proposal is to examine issues affecting the dissemination of brief motivational interventions in a regional Level 1 trauma center.
6 UD1 TI13418-05-5 Squires (PI) 9/30/06-9/29/07
DHHS/SAMHSA
Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England
The goal of this project is to promote system change and workforce development/enhancement through the dissemination of current research findings into clinical practice and educational programming across the six-state New England region.
1 R21 DA021150-01 Squires (PI) 5/10/07-4/30/09
NIH/NIDA
Training Drug Treatment Providers to Adopt Evidence-Based Practices
The goal of this proposal is to evaluate novel technology transfer methods intended to enhance adoption of evidence-based practice for drug treatment among treatment providers.
5 U10 DA015831 Weiss (PI) 9/2002-8/2005
NIH/NIDA
Clinical Trials Network: Harvard University Northern New England Node
The goal of this proposal is to bring together research expertise and community treatment programs to design and implement addiction treatment studies in the community, and to insure the broad distribution of research-based treatment practices into clinical practice.
Role: Co-investigator
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