Thomas F. Hilton, PhD

Dr. Tom Hilton joined NIDA's Services Research Branch in 1999. His grant portfolio at NIDA emphasizes addiction recovery research (ARR). ARR integrates longitudinal studies of support services to help reengineer how proven treatment and recovery services are dynamically linked in ways that optimize service interface with patient cognitive-emotional absorptive capacity. Projects focus on implementing, adopting, and sustaining evidence-based policies, treatments, and business practices that improve the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of SA treatment. ARR projects extend to dynamic models of addiction recovery from the point of first admission for treatment, examining associated health services systems, and the role played by patient neurological and cognitive-emotional health in achieving and sustaining recovery. Tom also has a portfolio of grants advancing research methodology and psychological measurement. Related to that portfolio, Tom is a Science Officer for the NIH Roadmap Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System known as PROMIS. Tom has over 30 years experience in studying and conducting large-scale organizational change. NIH's only industrial/organizational psychologist, he has conducted health service delivery research in industrial, general-medical, and addiction inpatient and outpatient settings. His work frequently addresses issues in human resource management, career development, personnel selection and screening, workteam performance, labor relations, and organizational change. Prior to joining NIH, he worked in a variety of offices within the Department of the Navy and the Federal Aviation Administration.