Brian Hurley

Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, FAPA, DFASAM is an addiction physician and is the Interim Director and the Medical Director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He has served on a variety of committees and councils at ASAM including originating ASAM’s Motivational Interviewing course and co-authoring the ASAM and AAAP National Practice Guideline on the Treatment of Stimulant Use Disorder. Dr. Hurley has led and facilitated projects funded through competitive grant awards from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the California Department of Health Care Services’ Opioid Response Programming in partnership with The Center at Sierra Health Foundation. These projects support harm reduction services and increase the availability of addiction medications in public sector programs across Los Angeles County.

Brian completed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is an alumnus of the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital Psychiatry Residency Training Program and the New York University Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. Additionally, he has served various roles for the Massachusetts Society of Addiction Medicine, New York Society of Addiction Medicine, and California Society of Addiction Medicine.