Deanna Sprunk


Program Operations Director
ctn@unm.edu
(505) 373-3863
About

Deanna Sprunk (also known as ds) is the Research Administration Manager at CASAA. In her role, she oversees the Pre and Post award research administration, serves on CASAA's leadership team lead by CASAA's Director, provides oversight and manages NIH funded grants at the center and is the financial manager of UNM's Campus Office of Substance Abuse & Prevention. 


  • Campus Office of Substance Abuse & Prevention (COSAP) (Randall Starling, COSAP Manager)
  • Leveraging CDC Opioid Overdose Surveillance Funding from the Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center to Create Tribal Data and Culturally Center Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (NIDA R61DA049382, Kamilla L Venner, UNM PI)
  • Culturally Centered MAT for OUD Implementation Facilitation for Primary Care and Addiction Treatment Programs Serving American Indian/Alaska Natives (NIH HEAL Initiative) (CTN-0096, Kamilla L Venner, UNM PI)
  • Development of a Comprehensive and Dynamic AA Process Model: One Day at a Time (NIAAA R01AA027508, J. Scott Tonigan, PI)
  • Alcohol Research Training: Methods and Mechanisms of Change (T32AA018108, Katie Witkiewitz, PI)
  • Integrative Treatment for Achieving Holistic Recovery from Comorbid Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder (RM1DA055301, mPIs: Witkiewitz/Pearson)
  • Integrating Mindfulness and mHealth Approaches for Treating Opioid Use Disorder (K23DA058015, Frank Schwebel, PI)
  • Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention and Psychophysiological Self-Regulation (K23AA031729, Matison McCool, PI)
  • Promoting Community Wellbeing Through Indigenous Science and Healing (OTDA061134, Kamilla Venner, mPI)
  • Creating Alcohol Responsibility & Education Strategies (SAG.2026.DFA.DIST, Randall Starling, PI)
  • Advancing precision medicine through measurement of reward and relief drinking (F31AA032691, Hanna Hebden, PI)
  • Stigma and Recovery From Alcohol Use Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Mindfulness Processes (F31AA0322421, David I.K. Moniz-Lewis, PI)
  • Nicotine Use Prevention And Control Program (26 UNM 2002 00056, Randall Starling, PI)
  • Smart Health: Reducing Risky Drinking and Boosting STI Screening with Technology (Randall Starling, Matthew Pearson, mPIs)
  • Helen Salazar
  • Louis LeFlore
  • Sage Byrne