John Sheehe is the Co-Occurring Disorders System-wide Coordinator for LAC-DMH, part of the Office of the Medical Director.  He earned his BA at San Francisco State and spent several years in the airline industry before returning to school to become certified as a Chemical Dependency Counselor and then to complete a Master’s in Social Work at UCLA, where he graduated in 1995.  During his first assignments in this field, he began to realize the extent of the problem of dual diagnosis.  In 1999, he became the COD Coordinator in Service Area 5, and assumed his present position in 2006.  He was instrumental in beginning system-wide trainings in COD treatment for DMH clinicians.

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