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.

2008 Dan Anderson Award recipient  - Markus Heilig

CENTER CITY, MINN.--(Dec. 8, 2008)--Markus Heilig, M.D., Ph.D., clinical director at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and chief of the NIAAA Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies, has earned the 2008 Dan Anderson Research Award for his identification of a novel neurotransmitter system involved in craving for alcohol. Sponsored by the Butler Center for Research at Hazelden www.hazelden.org/research, the award honors a single published article by a researcher who has advanced the scientific knowledge of addiction recovery.  read more

Other Dan Anderson Research Award recipients  

• 2007 - William Fals-Stewart, Ph.D., School of Nursing, University of Rochester
• 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