Tara Peris, PhD
Dr. Peris is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is co-Director of the UCLA Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program and the Program Director ofthe ABC Children’s Partial Hospitalization Program. Her research and clinical interests are in developmental psychopathology, […]
Ketema Paul, PhD
Dr. Paul studies the genetic, molecular, and neural underpinnings of sleep. His primary interests are comprised of uncovering the mechanisms responsible for the negative effects of sleep deprivation. He also probes the origins of gender/sex differences in the ability to recover from sleep loss in order to develop therapeutic targets for sleep disorders that disproportionately […]
Elizabeth Ollen, PhD, MA
Email: eollen@mednet.ucla.edu Elizabeth Ollen, PhD, MA is Clinical Director of the EMPWR Program for LGBTQ mental health and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Dr. Ollen has extensive experience working with LGBTQ youth and their families, including youth exploring/questioning gender identity and/or sexual orientation. Dr. Ollen’s past research […]
Kristen Ochoa, MD, MPH
Public Psychiatry Forensic Psychiatry Justice-Involved Homelessness / Permanent Supportive Housing Kristen Ochoa, MD, MPH is Medical Director for the Los Angeles County Office of Diversion and Reentry in the Department of Health Services and Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She completed her MD and her forensic fellowship at the […]
Viet Nguyen, MD, MPH
Psychiatrist, Office of Diversion and Reentry, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Health Sciences Clinical Instructor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Areas of Focus: Global mental health, Community psychiatry, Collaborative care/mental health integration, Refugee/asylum, Justice-involved, Advocacy VNguyen6@dhs.lacounty.gov Dr. Viet Nguyen obtained her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Sociology from the University of […]
Larissa Mooney, MD
TITLES Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Dept. Of Psychiatry And Biobehavioral SciencesDirector, Addiction Psychiatry DivisionPrincipal Investigator, Greater Southern California Node, NIDA CTNGeffen School Of Medicine at UCLA BIO Larissa Mooney, M.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Division in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She […]
Jeanne Miranda, PhD
Dr. Jeanne Miranda is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Her major research contributions have been in evaluating mental health care for poor and minority women. She is evaluating an intervention her team developed for families adopting older children from foster care, adapting depression interventions for young women in […]
Norweeta Milburn, PhD
Community Psychiatry Child Psychiatry UCLA Faculty nmilburn@mednet.ucla.edu Dr. Milburn is a Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute Center for Community Health and Director of Research and Evaluation at the Nathanson Family Resilience Center. She received her Ph.D. in Community Psychology from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). […]
James McGough, MD
James J. McGough, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). He is currently […]
Ira Lesser, MD
Dr. Lesser is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Prior to becoming Chair at Harbor-UCLA, he was the Director of Residency Training at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center for 18 years. Dr. Lesser has published over 120 peer-review articles and chapters in books, mostly in the fields of mood and anxiety disorders, depression […]