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).
The CME/CE registration period has closed for this live activity. You will not be able to claim credit for this webinar.
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