Deni Carise, Ph.D.
Chief Clinical Officer, Recovery Centers of America (RCA) 
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

 

Deni Carise, Ph.D is a Clinical Psychologist and part of the recovery community for over 30 years.  She is currently Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) of Recovery Centers of America (RCA), and helped raise $350 million for this start-up company to create 8 treatment/recovery campuses.  Previously she held similar positions at CRC Health Group, Sierra Tucson, Phoenix House, and was an NIH-funded scientist and Director of the Treatment Systems Section at Treatment Research Institute. She has published over 100 articles, books and chapters. Dr Carise has been an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine since 1997.  She has worked extensively internationally, with treatment providers in Nigeria, Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, Greece, Singapore, Brazil, and China to develop national systems of clinical treatment delivery.  She is quoted in approximately 50 popular press publications each year, on numerous tv shows, and has presented over 200 lectures by invitation (approximately 35 internationally) in the past 15 years She is also a frequent blogger on Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deni-carise) on topics including treatment, recovery, prescription drug abuse, Healthcare Reform, Parity and emerging drug trends.

Psychiatrist, Ashley Addiction Treatment

Dr. Hobelmann recently started as a staff psychiatrist at Ashley in 2016 after completing his psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins. He has also completed an anesthesiology residency and pain medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins in 2006. Prior to his psychiatry residency, he worked at Ashley for a year as a staff physician and was in an interventional pain medicine practice for three years. He received a BS in Biology from Georgetown University and a Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins. His treatment interests are in addiction and chronic pain.