Dr. Joseph C. Vlaskovits serves as Medical Director of Substance Use Treatment Services for Ventura County Behavioral Health. He is the Founding Program Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Community Memorial Healthcare, and Adjunct Faculty for the Ventura County Medical Center Addiction Medicine Fellowship. He was previously Medical Director of the VCMC Inpatient Psychiatric Unit and has held leadership positions on the VCMC medical staff, including Chief of Psychiatry and Chair of the Credentials Committee.

In addition to teaching psychiatry residents and medical students, he supervises addiction medicine fellows and has taught family practice residents and psychologists-in-training. His present practice specialties are in community psychiatry (especially those patients suffering from severe and persistent mental illness), addiction medicine, and forensic psychiatry.

Dr. Vlaskovits received his MD degree from the University of Pécs, Hungary, in 2005 and completed his residency in Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico in 2011, including serving as Chief Resident at Albuquerque VA Medical Center. He completed a Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University in 2012. He is board-certified in Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, member of the Southern California Psychiatric Society, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training and the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

He is also involved in advocacy through the Southern California Psychiatric Society for reform of laws and greater resources for those suffering from mental illness and/or addiction.