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Leigh Henderson, Ph.D., an Epidemiologist and Senior Analyst, is project director on a major contract for Integrated Data for Substance Abuse Treatment Services for SAMHSA's Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS). This contract involves collecting, managing, and analyzing the three core DASIS components: the Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), and the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). Dr. Henderson has unmatched expertise with DASIS data, having worked with SAMHSA on its development, beginning in 1991, contributing actively to DASIS-related planning meetings, and consulting frequently on its components. Dr. Henderson continues to oversee analysis of data from DASIS, performs analysis on its components, and develops numerous reports. She writes annual reports on TEDS and N-SSATS, and she has oversight for the maintenance of I-SATS, including preparation of the annual National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and its Web-based counterpart, the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (http://www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov). She is also the Baltimore City representative to the Community Epidemiology Work Group sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). She and W. J. Glass of NIDA are the editors of the book LSD: Still With Us After All These Years. She regularly writes papers and reports on epidemiology and drug abuse, and participates in conferences for NIDA, SAMHSA, the American Public Health Association (APHA), the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), and the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR). Dr. Henderson presented information on DASIS to the European Monitoring Commission on Drugs and Drug Abuse in Lisbon, Portugal (October 2002 and June 2003), and to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, in Vienna, Austria (December 2003). Dr. Henderson received her doctoral degree in Epidemiology from the School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation was on Readiness to Stop Drug Use: A Stage-of-Change Model in a Population of Current and Former Injection Drug Users. | 