Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, FAPA, DFASAM
Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, FAPA, DFASAM is an addiction physician and the Medical Director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Brian currently serves as Immediate Past President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. 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 is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He 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.
Leah Wentworth is National Director in the Office of Science and Research at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). At NAMI she leads applied research projects, ensures that NAMI’s content is informed by current science, and works with stakeholders and partners to integrate the voice of lived experience into research efforts. Before coming to NAMI in 2021, she spent 13 years in state and local government, with a focus on developing, managing, and evaluating programs related to suicide prevention, mental health promotion, and injury prevention. She holds a BA in community planning from the University of Massachusetts - Boston, an MPH in health policy and management from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and a Ph.D. in occupational and environmental health from the University of Iowa.
The National Partnership on Behavioral Health and Tobacco Use has launched a new educational resource: a slide deck that serves as a ready-to-use presentation tool. Now it is your chance to see this slide deck in action! This live webinar will explore the harms of tobacco, share treatment resources for individuals with behavioral health conditions, and highlight key references with credible citations.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the persistent disparities in rate of tobacco product use among people receiving behavioral health services.
- Describe how to implement at least two interventions for tobacco treatment in behavioral health settings.
- Explain the importance of tobacco treatment to improve behavioral health and population health outcomes.
This webinar recording is intended to serve as an educational resource that complements the Behavioral Health and Tobacco Product Use presentation tool (or slide deck).
Participants who join the live session on May 5, 2026, can earn 1.0 hour of free credit You will receive instructions on how to claim credit via the post-webinar email.
ACCME Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the webinar activity.
Advance Practice Registered Nurses and Registered Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Physician Assistants: The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that the AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification.
California Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA category 1 CreditTM. If you are a pharmacist in another state, you should check with your state board for approval of this credit.
California Psychologists: The California Board of Psychology recognizes and accepts for continuing education credit courses that are provided by entities approved by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM is acceptable to meeting the CE requirements for the California Board of Psychology. Providers in other states should check with their state boards for acceptance of CME credit.
APA: Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
Up to 1.0 CE Credit may be claimed.
ASWB: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UCSF Continuing Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 general continuing education credit.
Interprofessional Continuing Education Credit (IPCE): This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Addiction Professionals: The California Department of Healthcare Services (DCHS) recognizes up to 10 hours of continuing education from a non-accredited provider. If you are a provider outside of California, please check with your state board for your credit policy.
Disclosures
This UCSF CME activity was planned and developed to uphold academic standards to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor; adhere to requirements to protect health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA); and include a mechanism to inform learners when unapproved or unlabeled uses of therapeutic products or agents are discussed or referenced.
All speakers, planning committee members and reviewers have disclosed they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Catherine Bonniot, Christine Cheng, Brian Clark, Stephanie Koenig, MPH, Jennifer Matekuare, Ma Krisanta Pamatmat, MPH, CHES, Jessica Safier, MA, Jason Satterfield, PhD, and Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS.
Don’t need to claim CME/CEUs? SCLC issues free certificates of attendance for those who want contact hours only.