Center Director & Professor, Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering
Arizona State University (ASU)Air Quality, Alternative Fuel, Biotechnology, natural resource management, Opiods, Public Health, Urban Development
Director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health SciencesAddiction, Alcoholism, Cannabis, Opiods, Psychiatry
Dr. Larissa Mooney is a board certified addiction psychiatrist with expertise in the treatment of substance use disorders and psychiatric comorbidity. After obtaining residency training at New York University, she completed a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Mooney is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic, where she teaches psychiatrists in training in the clinical management of dual diagnoses. Dr. Mooney serves on the Executive Board of Directors for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP). She has conducted research on treatment interventions for addictive disorders, including methamphetamine, cocaine and opioid use disorder and has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study clinical outcomes in individuals with cannabis use disorder.