Larissa Mooney, M.D.

Larissa Mooney, M.D., Co-Investigator/Faculty Mentor, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences with expertise in the treatment of substance use disorders and psychiatric comorbidity. She has served as a Co-Investigator and study physician on multiple behavioral and pharmacological intervention trials for substance use disorders at UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs. She was previously the Co-Lead Investigator for the Pacific Region Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (PI, Ling) and the UCLA site PI for multiple medication intervention trials for substance use disorders. She is currently a PI on NIDA-funded investigations of functional outcomes associated with cannabis use reduction and a patient decision aid for opioid use disorder medication treatment. Dr. Mooney provides our HA-STTP team with clinical expertise related to psychiatric comorbidities, health conditions, and public health outcomes associated with substance use disorders.