Jeremy is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Addiction Division of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He currently serves as Interim Clinical Director of the Addiction Division and Director of the UCLA Addiction Psychiatry Clinic. He joined UCLA faculty in 2024 and served as Behavioral Health and Psychiatric Services Lead for the UCLA Homeless Healthcare Collaborative (HHC) from 2024 to 2026, where he developed a street-based psychiatry program that expanded access to mental health and addiction care for people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County. A Geffen Scholar, Dr. Flores completed medical school and his psychiatry residency at UCLA, where he served as Program Chief Resident, followed by a fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry through the UCLA–VA Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship program.

 

In addition to his leadership roles, Dr. Flores attends on the Addiction Medicine Consult Service and the Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He is actively involved in medical education, teaching residents, fellows, and medical students about substance use disorders, street psychiatry, and community-based behavioral health care, and currently serves as Associate Program Director for both the UCLA Public and Community Psychiatry Fellowship and the UCLA-VA Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship.

 

His interests include addiction psychiatry, public and community psychiatry, social justice, LGBTQIA+ mental health, and medical education, with a focus on advancing equitable, community-based models of behavioral health care.