Laura B. Monico, PhD, is the Director of Research and Innovation at Boulder Care, a national telehealth provider delivering evidence-based, stigma-free addiction treatment with a focus on opioid use disorder. She leads a portfolio of research, strategy, and policy initiatives aimed at aligning care delivery with contemporary understandings of substance use and recovery.

Dr. Monico’s research encompasses a diverse and influential body of work investigating opioid use disorder, medications for addiction treatment, and systems-level approaches to care innovation and delivery. She has led and contributed to studies supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH/NIDA), Arnold Ventures, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, with a focus on expanding access, improving retention, and advancing equity in addiction care. Her work spans the design and evaluation of telehealth-based treatment, integration of peer recovery support specialists, implementation of harm reduction principles, and identification of structural barriers in Medicaid-funded care.

Her contributions to the scientific literature have shaped the field’s understanding of peer integration, harm reduction, and structural barriers to treatment. She has published extensively in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, translating complex findings into actionable models for real-world implementation. Dr. Monico is committed to advancing addiction research that is methodologically rigorous, policy-relevant, and centered on the lived experiences of people who use drugs.