Skip to main content
57th ASAM Annual Conference Main banner
Final Program


Preview Program

Regina LaBelle, JD

Professor, Director
Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

Regina LaBelle is a distinguished scholar and director of the Center on Addiction Policy at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is also a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Health, where she directs and teaches in the Master of Science in Addiction Policy and Practice program, a program she founded in 2021.
Regina has a history of public service, including in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) under the Biden and Obama administrations. At ONDCP, Regina was appointed Acting Director in the first year of the Biden Administration. Under President Obama, Regina served as Chief of Staff at ONDCP where she managed the agency's response to the overdose epidemic and the implementation of the National Drug Control Strategy. Prior to her federal service, Regina was appointed Legal Counsel to the mayor of Seattle, a position she held for 8 years.
Regina’s work has been published in the Journal of Opioid Management; Journal of Correctional Health Care/ Criminal Justice Review, and The Journal of Addiction Medicine. She has testified before both Senate and House Committees in the US Congress and is widely quoted in major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Regina has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and CBS.
Regina earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and B.A. magna cum laude from Boston College. She serves on the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health and previously served on the International Ethics Board for the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Disclosure information not submitted.

Presentation(s):