ASAM Stimulant Use Disorder Course - 2025

Carla Marienfeld, MD, is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist and Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego who supports recovery in an evidence based, harm-reduction approach through therapy, motivational interviewing, and medication treatment. Her research involves analysis of electronic medical record data for individuals with substance use disorders. She has authored or co-authored over 35 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, practice guidelines, and invited commentaries, and she edited two books: Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice and Absolute Addiction Psychiatry Review: An essential board exam study guide. She has been highly involved in education of colleagues and trainees about addiction psychiatry and effective interventions including buprenorphine treatment and motivational interviewing, and she is the fellowship director for the UCSD Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Marienfeld completed a fellowship in addiction psychiatry and residency training in psychiatry at Yale. During her residency, she was chief resident of psychiatry and founded (and later led) the Yale Global Mental Health Program. She earned a medical degree with honors from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, DFASAM is an addiction physician and the Director of Addiction Medicine for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Brian is currently a Director at Large for the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and will assume the position of President-Elect this April 2021. He co-chairs the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services’ Substance Use Disorders Workgroup and the SafeMedLA Medications for Addiction Treatment Action Team, and is the Clinical Director of the Addiction Treatment Starts Here programs through the Center for Care Innovations, focused on increasing the delivery of Medications for Addiction Treatment in California’s community health centers. He is the PI of two MAT Access Points projects funded by the Sierra Health Foundation, a co-PI of a TRDRP funded smoking cessation implementation project, and a co-investigator on NIDA, NIAAA, and PCORI funded addiction related implementation science grants managed through RAND. He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and regularly conducts motivational interviewing trainings throughout the United States. He is a Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor of Addiction Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He additionally serves on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s Addiction Psychiatry examination writing committee.

 Brian completed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was previously a UCLA - Veterans Administration National Quality Scholar at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. He completed a fellowship program in addiction psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. He completed residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, where he was Chief Resident in Addiction Psychiatry. Brian is a former National President of the American Medical Student Association.

Eve Lasswell, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who treats adults with substance use and co-occurring disorders. Dr. Lasswell is part of UC San Diego Health's Addiction Recovery and Treatment Services, which uses a harm-reduction approach to provide care for all stages of recovery from substance use disorders. She treats patients with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders and helps adults recover from addiction by encouraging behaviors that build wellness and emotional resilience.

 In addition, she has experience helping people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety, as well as concerns related to role transitions and interpersonal relationships.

 Dr. Lasswell also has experience providing care to diverse patient populations, including those with ethnic backgrounds different from her own, LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and asexual) individuals, and current and former members of the US military.

 Her research aims to improve outcomes for people with substance use disorders and improving access to mental health services for the underserved.

 Dr. Lasswell completed a postdoctoral fellowship in addiction treatment at Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at Indiana State University.

 She is a member of the American Psychological Association's Society of Addiction Psychology.

Sid Puri is an adult, child/adolescent, and addiction psychiatrist. He graduated from UC Davis School of Medicine and completed his adult psychiatry residency, served as chief resident for his child/adolescent fellowship, and addiction psychiatry fellowship at the UCLA Semel Institute. He’s currently the associate medical director of prevention at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC). He holds a BA and MA from UCLA in Art History and was a Fulbright Scholar to India. 

Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP, is an overdose researcher, Harm Reduction Program Manager and the Director of the SafeSpot Overdose Hotline at Boston Medical Center and an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. In 2021, he retired as a Lieutenant at a large regional ambulance service in Western Massachusetts, and had served as a first responder since 2013, having worked both as a firefighter and paramedic. He regularly shares for a national audience about his lived experience as a person who used drugs and overdose survivor. Stephen provides expert technical assistance around the topics of overdose prevention, emergency medical services, workforce and harm reduction to a variety of organizations, county and state governments across the country, including the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency, the National Academies of Medicine, and the National Governors Association. He has guest lectured at over a dozen universities including at Harvard University, University of Southern California, UMASS Medical School, and Georgetown University. He has research published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Substance Use & Addiction Journal, American Journal of Public Health and Health Promotion Practice. In September 2023, he was featured in the multiple award-winning Episode 809 ("The Call") on This American Life.

Dr. Raagini Jawa is an Assistant Professor and Clinician Investigator in the Center for Research on Health Care, Department of General Internal Medicine at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Jawa leads the Harm Reduction Research Collaborative team where her research focuses on the intersection of Infectious Disease and Addiction, including studying how to optimize integration of harm reduction services for individuals with substance use disorders within traditional health settings, developing multidisciplinary provider facing interventions to prevent infectious and non-infections complications of drug use. Clinically, she provides office-based addiction treatment in IM Recovery Engagement Program and attends the Endovascular Infection Service at UPMC.

Dr. DePhilippis is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and educator, predominantly, in the field of substance use disorders (SUD) treatment. He earned his Ph.D in Clinical Psychology in 1992 from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, PA. He serves as the Deputy National Mental Health Director for Substance Use SUD in the Office of Mental Health in the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He has particular interests and expertise in expanding access to evidence-based SUD treatment and measurement-based SUD care. He is a nationally recognized subject matter expert in Contingency Management (CM) whose work in implementing CM has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and featured in media reports in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, and National Public Radio. He is a trainer in Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Use Disorders. Dr. DePhilippis also is a Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.