Matthew Johnsen, Ph.D. (A.B.
Dartmouth College, 1975; Ph.D. North Carolina State University, 1993; NIMH
Post Doctoral Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
Duke University, 1992-1994) is Associate Professor of Psychiatry.
A sociologist with experience in both mental health services and
disability research, he has been involved with the evaluation of several
national demonstration programs evaluating service system integration for
homeless persons with serious mental illness, managed behavioral health
care, and the effectiveness of consumer-operated service programs.
He is currently Co-Principal Investigator of the COSP
Multisite Research Program, and is responsible for overseeing multisite
analysis issues, serving as co-chair of the Research Subcommittee, the
Common Ingredients Subcommittee, the Baseline Analysis Workgroup, and
moderating the Cost Subcommittee.
He is also currently research director of the Clubhouse
Research Program at UMMS. As
research director of the Clubhouse Research Program, Dr. Johnsen is
responsible for developing an international research agenda, and
coordinating research related to the efficacy of the clubhouse model.
Additional
interests include employment discrimination, rural mental health,
developmental disabilities, and jail/mental health programs.
He served as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts ARC and the
ARC/North Carolina. He has
served as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or
Co-Investigator on research grants received from National Institute on
Mental Illness, Center for Mental Health Services, the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, and from the states of North Carolina
and Maryland.
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