GSCN Principal Investigators
Yih-Ing Hser, Ph.D.
Dr. Yih-Ing Hser is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and the former Director of the Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research. As a trained quantitative psychologist, she has extensive experience in health services research, treatment evaluation, and long-term follow-up research, derived from her prior and ongoing research projects. She has been conducting research in the field of substance abuse and its treatment since 1980 and has extensive experience in research design and advanced statistical techniques applied to substance abuse data. Dr. Hser has published in the areas of treatment evaluation, epidemiology, natural history of drug addiction, and innovative statistical modeling development and application.
Email: YHser@mednet.ucla.edu
Larissa J. Mooney, M.D.
Larissa Mooney, M.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Division in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She also directs the UCLA Addiction Psychiatry Clinic and the UCLA–Veterans Affairs (VA) Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program, where she supervises and teaches psychiatrists in the clinical management of substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Dr. Mooney serves as Deputy Chief of the Substance Use Disorders Subdivision at the Greater Los Angeles VA. She is the Immediate Past President of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP), a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), and a Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and AAAP. Dr. Mooney is one of two Principal Investigators for the Greater Southern California Node of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network. Her research has focused on treatment interventions for opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and cannabis use disorder.
Email: LMooney@mednet.ucla.edu