Nadra Lisha, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I am an active collaborator, consultant, and co-author with numerous investigators, post-doctoral fellows, and other trainees primarily at UCSF. As a methodologist and statistician, a great deal of my published work typically comes from a group science approach with all publications including multiple co-authors. My role is typically as a quantitative methodologist, and I help in the planning and design of studies, monitoring of data collection and assurance of the quality of the data. I also serve as a mentor to postdocs and others when performing data management and routine and non-routine analyses, and to directly perform novel or advanced statistical analyses. Since 2014, I have served as a statistician on Dr. Ling’s U01 study evaluating novel interventions to prevent tobacco use among young adults in bars and nightclubs at CTCRE.

• Localized and widespread chronic pain in sexual and gender minority people-an analysis of the PRIDE study.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2024 Chadwick AL, Lisha NE, Lubensky ME, Dastur Z, Lunn MR, Obedin-Maliver J, Flentje A
• Localized and Widespread Chronic Pain in Sexual and Gender Minority People - An Analysis of The PRIDE Study.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024 Chadwick AL, Lisha NE, Lubensky ME, Dastur Z, Lunn MR, Obedin-Maliver J, Flentje A
• Mental health treatment experiences among sexual and gender minority individuals: Trauma exposure, barriers, microaggressions, and treatment satisfaction.
  Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 2024 Tiffany M. Artime, Eve A. Rosenfeld, Laura Ong, Nadra E. Lisha, James W. Dilley, Martha Shumway, Donovan Edward, Alexis Ceja, Leslie Einhorn, Micah E. Lubensky, Zubin Dastur, Mitchell R. Lunn, Juno …
• Abstract 2312 The Relationship Between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Obesity in a Diverse US Population Sample.
  Journal of Biological Chemistry 2024 Shayan Salimi, Kian Salimi, Nadra Lisha
• Prescription of estrogen therapy and sedating medications in older women in a national ambulatory care sample.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Hunter MM, Lisha NE, Huang AJ
• Older adults with overlapping caregiving responsibilities and care needs in a U.S. national community-based sample.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Semere W, Yank V, Lisha NE, Lindquist LA, Huang AJ
• Substance Use Over Time Among Sexual and Gender Minority People: Differences at the Intersection of Sex and Gender.
  LGBT health 2024 Flentje A, Sunder G, Ceja A, Lisha NE, Neilands TB, Aouizerat BE, Lubensky ME, Capriotti MR, Dastur Z, Lunn MR, Obedin-Maliver J
• Viral Suppression Trajectories Destabilized After Coronavirus Disease 2019 Among US People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Spinelli MA, Christopoulos KA, Moreira CV, Jain JP, Lisha N, Glidden DV, Burkholder GA, Crane HM, Shapiro AE, Jacobson JM, Cachay ER, Mayer KH, Napravnik S, Moore RD, Gandhi M, Johnson MO
• Social strain and conflict among older community-dwelling adults serving as caregivers: Findings from a national sample.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Nyarko-Odoom A, Kotwal A, Lisha NE, Yank V, Huang AJ
• The Brief Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Index: A Rapid 3-Item Scale to Measure Engagement in HIV Care.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Sauceda JA, Lisha NE, Ludwig-Barron N, Salazar J, Dilworth SE, Johnson MO, Christopoulos KA, Koester KA, Moore RD, Mayer KH, Fredericksen RJ, Mugavero MJ, Neilands TB
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Aging-Associated Functional Impairment in a National Sample of Older Community-Dwelling Adults.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Lee VM, Hargrave AS, Lisha NE, Huang AJ
• The role of prenatal violence exposure in the development of disparities in children's adiposity from birth to middle childhood.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2023 Rudd KL, Zhao Q, Lisha NE, Graff JC, Norona-Zhou A, Roubinov DS, Barrett ES, Juarez P, Carroll KN, Karr CJ, Sathyanarayana S, Mason WA, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR
• Corrigendum: Comparing client and staff reports on tobacco-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and services provided in substance use treatment.
  Tobacco induced diseases 2023 Martínez C, Lisha N, McCuistian C, Straus E, Delucchi K, Guydish J
• Comparing client and staff reports on tobacco-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and services provided in substance use treatment.
  Tobacco induced diseases 2023 Martínez C, Lisha N, McCuistian C, Strauss E, Deluchi K, Guydish J
• Elder Mistreatment Experienced by Older Caregiving Adults: Results from a National Community-Based Sample.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Nyarko-Odoom A, Lisha NE, Yank V, Kotwal A, Balogun S, Huang AJ
• Young children's traumatic stress reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic: The long reach of mothers' adverse childhood experiences.
  Journal of affective disorders 2022 Hagan MJ, Roubinov DR, Cordeiro A, Lisha N, Bush NR
• The effect of an HIV preexposure prophylaxis panel management strategy to increase preexposure prophylaxis prescriptions.
  AIDS (London, England) 2022 Saberi P, Stoner MCD, Ming K, Lisha NE, Hojilla JC, Scott HM, Liu AY, Steward WT, Johnson MO, Neilands TB
• AWARENESS: A cognitive behavioral intervention to reduce intersectional minority stress among sexual minority men living with HIV who use substances.
  Drug and alcohol dependence reports 2022 Flentje A, Sunder G, Dilley JW, Neilands TB, Lisha NE, Katuzny KE, Carrico AW
• Intergenerational transmission of maternal childhood adversity and depression on children's internalizing problems.
  Journal of affective disorders 2022 Roubinov D, Browne D, LeWinn KZ, Lisha N, Mason WA, Bush NR
• Social Participation and Elder Mistreatment in a National Sample of Older Adults.
  Innovation in Aging 2021 Emmy Yang, Nadra Lisha, Ashwin Kotwal, Jaclyn Wong, Alison Huang
• Longitudinal Associations Between Use of Tobacco and Cannabis Among People Who Smoke Cigarettes in Real-world Smoking Cessation Treatment.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2021 Nguyen N, Neilands TB, Lisha NE, Lyu JC, Olson SS, Ling PM
• A Mobile Health App (WYZ) for Engagement in Care and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Youth and Young Adults Living With HIV: Single-Arm Pilot Intervention Study.
  JMIR formative research 2021 Saberi P, Lisha NE, Erguera XA, Hudes ES, Johnson MO, Ruel T, Neilands TB
• Formal and informal social participation and elder mistreatment in a national sample of older adults.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Yang EZ, Kotwal AA, Lisha NE, Wong JS, Huang AJ
• Development of the Mobile Technology Vulnerability Scale among Youth and Young Adults Living with HIV.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2021 Lisha NE, Neilands TB, Erguera XA, Saberi P
• Is Better Patient Knowledge Associated with Different Treatment Preferences? A Survey of Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease.
  Patient preference and adherence 2021 Yuan N, Boscardin C, Lisha NE, Dudley RA, Lin GA
• Workplace Sexual Harassment: Potential Long-term Associations with Psychological Function in Older Adults.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Gibson CJ, Lisha N, Lalchandani P, Huang AJ
• Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2020 Steine IM, LeWinn KZ, Lisha N, Tylavsky F, Smith R, Bowman M, Sathyanarayana S, Karr CJ, Smith AK, Kobor M, Bush NR
• Early Life Sexual Trauma and Later Life Genitourinary Dysfunction and Functional Disability in Women.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Lalchandani P, Lisha N, Gibson C, Huang AJ
• Internalized HIV stigma predicts subsequent viremia in US HIV patients through depressive symptoms and antiretroviral therapy adherence.
  AIDS (London, England) 2020 Christopoulos KA, Neilands TB, Dilworth S, Lisha N, Sauceda J, Mugavero MJ, Crane HM, Fredericksen RJ, Mathews WC, Moore RD, Mayer KH, Napravnik S, Johnson MO
• Improving the HIV PrEP continuum of care using an intervention for healthcare providers: a stepped-wedge study protocol.
  BMJ open 2020 Ming K, Shrestha I, Vazquez A, Wendelborn J, Jimenez V, Lisha N, Neilands TB, Scott H, Liu A, Steward W, Johnson MO, Saberi P
• Strategies for evaluating self-efficacy and observed success in the practice of yoga postures for therapeutic indications: methods from a yoga intervention for urinary incontinence among middle-aged and older women.
  BMC complementary medicine and therapies 2020 Nicosia FM, Lisha NE, Chesney MA, Subak LL, Plaut TM, Huang A
• Measuring engagement in HIV care: Measurement invariance in three racial/ethnic patient groups.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2020 Sauceda JA, Lisha NE, Dilworth SE, Johnson MO, Christopoulos KA, Wood T, Koester KA, Mathews WC, Moore RD, Napravnik S, Mayer KH, Crane HM, Fredericksen RJ, Mugavero MJ, Neilands TB
• Patient Knowledge, Beliefs and Barriers to Hepatitis B Care: Results of a Multicenter, Multiethnic Patient Survey.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2020 Mukhtar NA, Evon DM, Yim C, Lok AS, Lisha N, Lisker-Melman M, Hassan M, Janssen HLA, Khalili M
• Join the Commune: A Controlled Study of Social Branding Influencers to Decrease Smoking Among Young Adult Hipsters.
  American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2020 Ling PM, Lisha NE, Neilands TB, Jordan JW
• More Similarities Than Differences? An Exploratory Analysis Comparing the Sexual Complaints, Sexual Experiences, and Genitourinary Health of Older Sexual Minority and Sexual Majority Adults.
  The journal of sexual medicine 2019 Obedin-Maliver J, Lisha N, Breyer BN, Subak LL, Huang AJ
• Differential Associations Between Anti-Tobacco Industry Attitudes and Intention to Quit Smoking Across Young Adult Peer Crowds.
  American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2019 Nguyen N, Lisha NE, Neilands TB, Jordan JW, Ling PM
• Does Experienced Discrimination Explain Patterns of Menthol Use Among Young Adults? Evidence from the 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Young Adult Health Survey.
  Substance use & misuse 2019 Holmes LM, Lea Watkins S, Lisha NE, Ling PM
• Young adults report increased pleasure from using e-cigarettes and smoking tobacco cigarettes when drinking alcohol.
  Addictive behaviors 2019 Thrul J, Gubner NR, Tice CL, Lisha NE, Ling PM
• Cognitive-affective depressive symptoms and substance use among Latino and non-Latino White patients in HIV care: an analysis of the CFAR network of integrated clinical systems cohort.
  Journal of behavioral medicine 2018 Sauceda JA, Lisha NE, Neilands TB, Christopoulos KA, Mathews WC, Levison JH, Dennis AM, Johnson MO
• A group-based yoga program for urinary incontinence in ambulatory women: feasibility, tolerability, and change in incontinence frequency over 3 months in a single-center randomized trial.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2018 Huang AJ, Chesney M, Lisha N, Vittinghoff E, Schembri M, Pawlowsky S, Hsu A, Subak L
• Interpersonal trauma and aging-related genitourinary dysfunction in a national sample of older women.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2018 Gibson CJ, Lisha NE, Walter LC, Huang AJ
• Latent Class Analysis to Examine Patterns of Smoking and Other Tobacco Products in Young Adult Bar Patrons.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2018 Lisha NE, Thrul J, Ling PM
• Urinary Incontinence in a National Cohort of Older Women: Implications for Caregiving and Care Dependence.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2018 Yang E, Lisha NE, Walter L, Obedin-Maliver J, Huang AJ
• Soda intake and tobacco use among young adult bar patrons: A cross-sectional study in seven cities.
  Preventive medicine reports 2018 Kearns CE, Lisha NE, Ling PM
• New approach to decrease smoking among young adult bar patrons.
  Tobacco Induced Diseases 2018 Pamela Ling, Nadra Lisha, Tor Neilands, Jeff Jordan
• E-cigarettes Associated With Depressed Smoking Cessation: A Cross-sectional Study of 28 European Union Countries.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2018 Kulik MC, Lisha NE, Glantz SA
• Bars, Nightclubs, and Cancer Prevention: New Approaches to Reduce Young Adult Cigarette Smoking.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2017 Ling PM, Holmes LM, Jordan JW, Lisha NE, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Psychometric evaluation of an abbreviated version of the intragroup marginalization inventory.
  Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse 2017 Llamas J, Holmes LM, Lisha NE, Ling PM
• Other Tobacco Product Use Among Sexual Minority Young Adult Bar Patrons.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2017 Fallin-Bennett A, Lisha NE, Ling PM
• Comparing Asian American Women's Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Risk of Heart Attack to Other Racial and Ethnic Groups: The mPED Trial.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2017 Fukuoka Y, Lisha NE, Vittinghoff E
• Beyond experimentation: Five trajectories of cigarette smoking in a longitudinal sample of youth.
  PloS one 2017 Dutra LM, Glantz SA, Lisha NE, Song AV
• A longitudinal study of persistent smoking among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men in primary relationships.
  Addictive behaviors 2016 Gamarel KE, Neilands TB, Conroy AA, Dilworth SE, Lisha N, Taylor JM, Darbes LA, Johnson MO
• Peer crowd affiliation as a segmentation tool for young adult tobacco use.
  Tobacco control 2016 Lisha NE, Jordan JW, Ling PM
• Tobacco Marketing Receptivity and Other Tobacco Product Use Among Young Adult Bar Patrons.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2016 Thrul J, Lisha NE, Ling PM
• Medical marijuana legalization and cigarette and marijuana co-use in adolescents and adults.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2016 Wang JB, Ramo DE, Lisha NE, Cataldo JK
• Electronic-cigarette use by individuals in treatment for substance abuse: A survey of 24 treatment centers in the United States.
  Addictive behaviors 2016 Gubner NR, Andrews KB, Mohammad-Zadeh A, Lisha NE, Guydish J
• Evaluation of Bar and Nightclub Intervention to Decrease Young Adult Smoking in New Mexico.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2016 Kalkhoran S, Lisha NE, Neilands TB, Jordan JW, Ling PM
• Phantom smoking among young adult bar patrons.
  Tobacco control 2016 Guillory J, Lisha N, Lee YO, Ling PM
• The Social Prioritization Index and Tobacco Use Among Young Adult Bar Patrons.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2015 Lisha NE, Neilands TB, Jordan JW, Holmes LM, Ling PM
• Validity and reliability of the Internalized Stigma of Smoking Inventory: An exploration of shame, isolation, and discrimination in smokers with mental health diagnoses.
  The American journal on addictions 2015 Brown-Johnson CG, Cataldo JK, Orozco N, Lisha NE, Hickman NJ, Prochaska JJ
• Coping mediates the effects of depressive symptoms on sleep problems.
  American journal of health behavior 2015 Nguyen-Rodriguez ST, Lisha NE, Spruijt-Metz D, Sun P, Rohrbach LA, Sussman S
• THE RELATIONSHIP OF EMERGING ADULTHOOD TRAJECTORIES TO DRUG USE, AND OTHER CORRELATES.
  Salud y drogas 2015 Lisha NE, Leventhal AM, Rohrbach L, Spruijt-Metz D, Sun P, Sussman S
• Participation in team sports as related to alcohol and marijuana use growth in youth.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2014 Nadra E. Lisha, W.D. Crano, K. Delucchi
• Treatment adherence and competency ratings among therapists, supervisors, study-related raters and external raters in a clinical trial of a 12-step facilitation for stimulant users.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2014 Peavy KM, Guydish J, Manuel JK, Campbell BK, Lisha N, Le T, Delucchi K, Garrett S
• Abuse During Early Childhood.
  2014 Preston A. Britner, Samantha A. Goodrich, Sharon G. Portwood, Preston A. Britner, Jodie K. Comer, Sharon G. Portwood, Douglas Smith, Andrew Stuck, Brayton Tompkins, Miriam Mulsow, Melinda Corwin, Adam…
• Drug Use Prevention During Childhood.
  Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion 2014 Nadra E. Lisha, Pallav Pokhrel, Steve Sussman
• Emerging adulthood themes, role transitions and substance use among Hispanics in Southern California.
  Addictive behaviors 2013 Allem JP, Lisha NE, Soto DW, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Unger JB
• Participation in Team Sports and Alcohol and Marijuana Use Initiation Trajectories.
  Journal of drug issues 2013 Lisha NE, Crano WD, Delucchi KL
• Correction to "Physical activity and alcohol use disorders".
  The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse 2013 Lisha NE, Sussman S, Leventhal AM
• Positive and negative affect as predictors of urge to smoke: temporal factors and mediational pathways.
  Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors 2013 Leventhal AM, Greenberg JB, Trujillo MA, Ameringer KJ, Lisha NE, Pang RD, Monterosso J
• Anxiety sensitivity as a predictor of acute subjective effects of smoking.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2012 Wong M, Krajisnik A, Truong L, Lisha NE, Trujillo M, Greenberg JB, Kahler CW, Zvolensky MJ, Leventhal AM
• Physical activity and alcohol use disorders.
  The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse 2012 Lisha NE, Sussman S, Fapa F, Leventhal AM
• The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  Physical Activity and Alcohol Use Disorders 2012 Lisha, N.E., Sussman, S., Leventhal, M.A.
• Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Revised Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA-R) in a Sample of Continuation High School Students.
  Evaluation & the health professions 2012 Lisha NE, Grana R, Sun P, Rohrbach L, Spruijt-Metz D, Reifman A, Sussman S
• One-year prediction of pain killer use among at-risk older teens and emerging adults.
  Journal of drug education 2012 Sussman S, Rohrbach LA, Spruijt-Metz D, Barnett E, Lisha N, Sun P
• Age and gender as moderators of the relationship between physical activity and alcohol use.
  Addictive behaviors 2011 Lisha NE, Martens M, Leventhal AM
• Relationship of high school and college sports participation with alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use: a review.
  Addictive behaviors 2010 Lisha NE, Sussman S
• CONCURRENT PREDICTORS OF DRUG USE CONSEQUENCES AMONG U.S. AND RUSSIAN ADOLESCENTS.
  Salud y drogas 2009 Sussman S, Gunning M, Lisha NE, Rohrbach LA, Kniazev V, Masagutov R
• Living kidney donation among Hispanics: a qualitative examination of barriers and opportunities.
  Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) 2008 Alvaro EM, Siegel JT, Turcotte D, Lisha N, Crano WD, Dominick A
• Living kidney donation among Hispanics: a qualitative examination of barriers and opportunities.
  Progress in Transplantation 2008 Eusebio Alvaro, Jason Siegel, Dana Turcotte, Nadra Lisha, William Crano, Alexander Dominick
• Drug use prevention during childhood. . In T. Gullotta & M. Bloom (Eds.),
  Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. Lisha, N. E., Pohkrel, P. & Sussman, S.
• Journal of Drug Education
  One-year Prediction of Pain Killer Use among At-Risk Older Teens and Emerging Adults. Sussman, S., Rohrbach LA, Spruijt-Metz, D, Barnett L., Lisha NE, & Sun P
• Journal of Drug Education,
  An evaluation of immediate outcomes and fidelity of a drug abuse prevention program in continuation high schools: Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND). Lisha NE, Sun P, Rohrbach L, Spruijt-Metz D, Unger B, & Sussman S
• Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  Anxiety sensitivity as a predictor of acute subjective effects of smoking. Wong, M., Krajisnik, A., Truong, L., Lisha, N.E., Trujillo, M., Greenberg, J.B., Kahler, C.W., Zvolensky, M.J, & Leventhal, A. M.