Joe Glass
Affiliate Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health
Affiliate Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Senior Research Scientist, Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems
206-287-4266 | joseph.e.glass@kp.org
Research Interests
Substance use disorder services; research and statistical methods; implementation science; digital therapeutics
Bio
Joseph Glass, PhD, MSW, is a Senior Research Scientist at Chestnut Health Systems. Dr. Glass’s research seeks to identify how effective interventions for alcohol and drug use can reach more people. Much of his work aims to develop, test, and implement modern models of care that proactively deliver novel addiction treatments and provide support to people while they seek treatment.
Dr. Glass’s work is informed by his practical experience in the field. After receiving a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan, Dr. Glass was a psychiatric social worker at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System. There he developed expertise in social work case management and evidence-based treatments for anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders.
Dr. Glass completed a 5-year career development award in 2021 funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to obtain intensive training in clinical trials and implementation science. Since then, he has led 2 randomized controlled trials:
The DIGITS Trial, which tested strategies for improving how clinicians and patients use smartphone-based treatments for substance use disorder in primary care.
The Addressing Barriers to Care Trial (ABC-SUD), part of a national center of excellence on implementation science, is evaluating use of Care Navigators to help people engage in addiction treatment when they seek it.
To bring cutting-edge quantitative research methods to the field of addiction, Dr. Glass and his colleagues, including Dr. Wong at University of Washington and Noorie Hyun at Kaiser Permanete Washington, are launching a new 5-year project to compressively characterize how people interact with health systems to obtain addiction treatment. They will compare the effectiveness of the most common care pathways that people embark upon, comparing outcomes such as overdose, survival, and recovery.
He also enjoys serving as a co-investigator, consultant, and mentor, and he frequently provides clinical expertise and statistical support to his colleagues.
Education
PhD Social Work, Washington University, 2012
MSW University of Michigan, 2005
BS Psychology, Michigan State University, 2004