Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, DFASAM

Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, FAPA, DFASAM is an addiction physician and the Medical Director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He is the President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the Co-Clinical Director of the Addiction Treatment Starts Here program through the Center for Clinical Innovation, focused on increasing the delivery of medications for addiction treatment in California’s community health centers. He is a senior researcher at the Friends Research Institute and recently concluded a role as a co-primary investigator on a Tobacco Related Disease Prevention Program-funded project integrating smoking cessation services into community mental health centers and patient-centered medical homes. He has also led numerous grant funded projects for Medications for Addiction Treatment Access Points projects funded by the Sierra Health Foundation supporting access to medications for addiction treatment across Los Angeles County and is the program lead for LA County’s Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration’s Harm Reduction grant award and the Centers for Disease Control Overdose to Action Local grant award. He is also a co-investigator for several Rand Corporation projects evaluating the integration of substance use disorder and mental health treatment within community health settings.