Denise Hien is the vice provost for research at Rutgers-New Brunswick. She is a professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP), the Helen E. Chaney Endowed Chair in Alcohol Studies, and director of the Center for Alcohol and Substance Use Studies. She served as the interim dean of GSAPP in 2020-2021. Dr. Hien received her M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. 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. Dr. Hien is a leading researcher in addictions, trauma, and racial and ethnic disparities. She has an impressive record of successful grant funding. Dr. Hien has sustained funding over the last 25 years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (20 grants: 7 R01s, 1 Multi-site, and 2 R25s). Her body of work has contributed to the evidence base on the treatment of women with trauma-related psychiatric disorders and their comorbidity with addictions through conducting single- and multi-site clinical trials across the United States in community-based substance abuse treatment settings. She has a distinguished record of over $20 million in grant funding in clinical trials research on addictions. She has led large, complex research projects and small pilot projects with co-investigators from multiple disciplines and across institutions.