Board-certified psychiatrist. Subspecialty training in forensic psychiatry. UCLA undergrad, Keck School of Medicine of USC, LAC+USC residency, USC Institute of Psychiatry and Law fellowship. Clinical oversight for Gev’s Recovery Center.
They list “our medical team” and a stock photo. You deserve a name.
Dr. Eric Chaghouri is the Medical Director and Consulting Psychiatrist for Gev’s Recovery Center. He is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He completed a forensic psychiatry fellowship at the USC Institute of Psychiatry and Law. He has 14 years in clinical practice. His full background is below.
If you want to know who is signing off on the clinical side of your care here, that’s the answer. One person. Named. Reachable through this page.
| Role at Gev’s Recovery Center | Medical Director and Consulting Psychiatrist |
| Board certification | American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) |
| Subspecialty training | Forensic Psychiatry — USC Institute of Psychiatry and Law fellowship |
| Medical degree | Keck School of Medicine of USC, 2011 |
| Residency | LAC+USC Medical Center — General Adult Psychiatry; Chief Resident, Psychiatric Emergency Services |
| Internship | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 2008 |
| Undergraduate | UCLA, B.A. Biology, summa cum laude, 2007 |
| NPI | 1932472883 |
| State license | California — verifiable through the Medical Board of California |
| Years in clinical practice | 14+ |
Most people coming through detox have more than one thing going on at the same time. Anxiety. Depression. PTSD from a long shift on a hard floor. The clinical literature calls it co-occurring disorders. He has built his practice around it.
Dual diagnosis isn’t a separate program here. The depression that drove the drinking, the trauma underneath the opioid use, the bipolar diagnosis someone has been self-medicating for ten years — those get evaluated on day one and treated alongside the substance use, not after it. Treating one without the other is how people relapse.
Working with attorneys, courts, and legal teams in civil and criminal litigation. Many of our clients arrive with legal exposure — pending criminal matters, disability claims, FMLA paperwork, fitness-for-duty evaluations, custody hearings, court-ordered treatment.
Forensic experience matters here because Dr. Chaghouri reads those situations clinically without flinching, addresses them in session as part of recovery, and produces the documentation — letters, treatment summaries, evaluations — that holds up when an attorney, claims adjuster, or judge needs it. Insurance verification, prior authorization, and appeals across major carriers run through our utilization-review and billing team — see our insurance coverage hub, including dedicated resources for Carelon Behavioral Health, NYSHIP / The Empire Plan, Anthem BCBS NY, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Anthem Blue Cross of California, BCBS BlueCard, Magellan, and UMR members.
No quick fixes. No miracle protocols. CBT, DBT, EMDR, motivational interviewing, group therapy — the modalities that have actually shown up in the clinical literature.
When medication helps, Dr. Chaghouri prescribes it. Medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, naltrexone for alcohol or opioid use disorder, acamprosate to reduce alcohol craving — is recovery medicine, not a fallback.
Same logic for psychiatric medication when a co-occurring condition is in the picture: SSRIs for depression, mood stabilizers for bipolar, what the diagnosis calls for in trauma cases. Medication is one tool in the plan. It works with the therapy, not in place of it.
Dr. Chaghouri earned his bachelor’s in biology from UCLA in 2007, summa cum laude. While at UCLA he played for the men’s volleyball program and took home the 2007 Rose Gilbert Scholar-Athlete of the Year award — given each year to the UCLA student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA across the entire athletic program. He helped the volleyball team win an NCAA national championship in 2006.
He went on to the Keck School of Medicine of USC, graduating in 2011. His internship was at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His residency in general adult psychiatry was at LAC+USC Medical Center, the largest county hospital system in Los Angeles. He served as Chief Resident in psychiatric emergency services in his fourth year.
He completed a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at the USC Institute of Psychiatry and Law.
Beyond clinical practice, Dr. Chaghouri has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law on death-penalty case standards. He has served as a resident clinical instructor in the USC Department of Psychiatry. He has held medical leadership roles at Southern California treatment centers including Camden Center.
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