Scott McClure, PhD
Cal-METRO Project Director

Scott McClure, PhD, is the Principal Learning Skills Counselor at the University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, Center for Criminality and Addiction Research, Training, and Application (CCARTA). At CCARTA, he supervises the Senior Learning Skills Counselors, oversees curriculum development, and provides technology transfer of evidence based treatment for substance use disorders to addiction treatment professionals throughout the state of California. Prior to CCARTA, Dr. McClure worked at the UCSD Co-occurring Disorders Outpatient clinic as an addiction treatment clinician were he provided intensive individual and group treatment for county and Proposition 36 clients with co-occurring disorders (COD). Dr. McClure received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego in 2008. He has over 9 years of experience with mental health and addiction treatment, which includes over seven years of providing individual and group treatment for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use issues across a broad scope of populations ranging from the severally mentally ill to university students. Dr. McClure has strong clinical and training facilitation experience in Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Addiction, Trauma Informed Treatment (Seeking Safety), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and integrative treatment for co-occurring disorders. His clinical and research interests include criminality and addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, work force development, and multicultural issues.

Neal Doran, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Program Evaluator

Neal Doran, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine, and program evaluator on the Cal-METRO project at the Center for Criminality and Addiction Research, Training, and Application. Neal received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1997, and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006. He completed his clinical internship at the UCSD/VA San Diego joint program, where his rotations included (1) UCSD Burn Service; (2) VA Spinal Cord Injury Service; (3) UCSD Palliative Care Center. Neal was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which he completed in 2008 prior to joining CCARTA. He also maintains a research program within the Department of Psychiatry, including a study designed to identify college students at risk for initiating cigarette smoking, funded by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Neal has 15 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and has presented his work at numerous professional conferences nationwide.