Alta Deroo

A board certified addiction medicine physician and obstetrician-gynecologist, Alta DeRoo, MD, DFASAM, FACOG, serves as chief medical officer of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. Dr. DeRoo joined Hazelden Betty Ford in 2020 as medical director of the Betty Ford Center’s three facilities in California, located in Rancho Mirage, West Los Angeles and San Diego. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a member of the American Association of Addiction Psychiatry and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. DeRoo’s extraordinary record of accomplishment includes a 24-year career in the U.S. Navy.