Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, DFASAM is an addiction psychiatrist and a Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. His focus is on integrating addiction treatments into general healthcare settings and building an integrated continuum of care for patients with addictive diseases served by healthcare systems. To this end, he develops policies and programs designed to promote treatments for addiction integrated throughout publicly funded healthcare system in Los Angeles County.
He is board certified in psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine. He completed a fellowship program in addiction psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital (MGH-McLean), where he was Chief Resident in Addiction Psychiatry. Brian is a graduate of the Keck School of Medicine and Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California. He currently serves as the Treasurer of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and is on the addiction psychiatry subspecialty exam writing committee of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is also active within the American Association of Medical Colleges, the American Medical Association, and GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Equality.
He is currently a Fellow of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, was a 2012 American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Fellow, and previously served on the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees. He envisions a world transformed through the effective prevention and treatment of addiction.