Valerie Gruber, PhD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

in Clinical Psychology at Kent State University, internship at the UCSF Clinical Psychology Training Program, and an M.P.H. at the University of California Berkeley. Her clinical, supervision, leadership, teaching and research efforts focus on developing clinical interventions for substance use disorders and associated psychiatric and medical conditions that are effective for low-income adults diverse in race, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and disability. Areas of expertise include treatment of substance use and psychiatric disorders in behavioral health and primary care settings, using trauma-informed, culturally informed, anti-racist approaches to reduce health and health care disparities. Skills include motivational interviewing, individual, couples and group psychotherapy, psychological assessment, culturally responsive approaches, staff development, program management and clinical research. She has published research on behavioral, digital and structural interventions in methadone maintenance, outpatient and residential treatment, and HIV primary care.

• iVY: protocol for a randomised clinical trial to test the effect of a technology-based intervention to improve virological suppression among young adults with HIV in the USA.
  BMJ open 2023 Saberi P, Stoner MCD, McCuistian CL, Balaban C, Ming K, Wagner D, Chakraborty B, Smith L, Sukhija-Cohen A, Neilands TB, Gruber VA, Johnson MO
• Pre-implementation Assessment of Tobacco Cessation Interventions in Substance Use Disorder Residential Programs in California.
  Substance use & misuse 2022 Fokuo JK, McCuistian CL, Masson CL, Gruber VA, Straus E, Wong J, Guydish JR
• Methadone maintenance patients lack analgesic response to a cumulative intravenous dose of 32 mg of hydromorphone.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2021 Agin-Liebes G, Huhn AS, Strain EC, Bigelow GE, Smith MT, Edwards RR, Gruber VA, Tompkins DA
• COVID-19 vaccine trust among clients in a sample of California residential substance use treatment programs.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2021 Masson CL, McCuistian C, Straus E, Elahi S, Chen M, Gruber VA, Le T, Guydish J
• Addressing HIV care, mental health and substance use among youth and young adults in the Bay Area: description of an intervention to improve information, motivation and behavioural skills.
  BMJ open 2021 McCuistian C, Wootton AR, Legnitto-Packard D, Gruber VA, Dawson-Rose C, Johnson MO, Saberi P
• Video-Counseling Intervention to Address HIV Care Engagement, Mental Health, and Substance Use Challenges: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial for Youth and Young Adults Living with HIV.
  Telemedicine reports 2021 Saberi P, McCuistian C, Agnew E, Wootton AR, Legnitto Packard DA, Dawson-Rose C, Johnson MO, Gruber VA, Neilands TB
• Use of technology for delivery of mental health and substance use services to youth living with HIV: a mixed-methods perspective.
  AIDS care 2019 Saberi P, Dawson Rose C, Wootton AR, Ming K, Legnitto D, Jeske M, Pollack LM, Johnson MO, Gruber VA, Neilands TB
• Fair hearing outcomes of patients recommended discharge from methadone maintenance.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2017 Chang JS, Chiu JD, Gruber VA, Sorensen JL
• Do cigarette graphic warnings encourage smokers to attend a smoking cessation programme: a quasi-experimental study.
  Tobacco control 2016 Guydish J, Tajima B, Le T, Henderson C, Yip D, Gruber V, Garcia W, Delucchi KL
• Scientist–Practitioner Training at the Internship and Postdoctoral Level: Reflections Over Three Decades.
  Training and Education in Professional Psychology 2015 Ricardo F. Muñoz, James L. Sorensen, Patricia A. Areán, Alicia F. Lieberman, Laurie Fields, Valerie A. Gruber, Sharon M. Hall, Joel H. Kramer, Yan Leykin, Keith McBurnett, John R. McQuaid, Linda J. …
• Uptake of HIV testing in substance use disorder treatment programs that offer on-site testing.
  AIDS and behavior 2015 Kyle TL, Horigian VE, Tross S, Gruber VA, Pereyra M, Mandler RN, Feaster DJ, Metsch LR
• Interaction of disulfiram with antiretroviral medications: efavirenz increases while atazanavir decreases disulfiram effect on enzymes of alcohol metabolism.
  The American journal on addictions 2013 McCance-Katz EF, Gruber VA, Beatty G, Lum P, Ma Q, DiFrancesco R, Hochreiter J, Wallace PK, Faiman MD, Morse GD
• Interactions between alcohol and the antiretroviral medications ritonavir or efavirenz.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2013 McCance-Katz EF, Gruber VA, Beatty G, Lum PJ, Rainey PM
• Interactions between buprenorphine and the protease inhibitors darunavir-ritonavir and fosamprenavir-ritonavir.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2011 Gruber VA, Rainey PM, Moody DE, Morse GD, Ma Q, Prathikanti S, Pade PA, Alvanzo AA, McCance-Katz EF
• Multi-center trial of baclofen for abstinence initiation in severe cocaine-dependent individuals.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2009 Kahn R, Biswas K, Childress AR, Shoptaw S, Fudala PJ, Gorgon L, Montoya I, Collins J, McSherry F, Li SH, Chiang N, Alathari H, Watson D, Liberto J, Beresford T, Stock C, Wallace C, Gruber V, Elkashef …
• Adoption of evidence-based practices among substance abuse treatment providers.
  Journal of drug education 2008 Haug NA, Shopshire M, Tajima B, Gruber V, Guydish J
• Psychosocial Predictors of Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy.
  Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services 2007 Valerie A. Gruber, James L. Sorensen, Nancy A. Haug
• Gender differences among HIV-positive methadone maintenance patients enrolled in a medication adherence trial.
  AIDS care 2005 Haug NA, Sorensen JL, Lollo ND, Gruber VA, Delucchi KL, Hall SM
• Longer episodes of community residential care reduce substance abuse patients' readmission rates.
  Journal of studies on alcohol 1995 Moos RH, Pettit B, Gruber V
• Characteristics and outcomes of three models of community residential care for abuse patients.
  Journal of substance abuse 1995 Moos RH, Pettit B, Gruber VA
• Pregnancy and contraception use among urban Rwandan women after HIV testing and counseling.
  American journal of public health 1993 Allen S, Serufilira A, Gruber V, Kegeles S, Van de Perre P, Carael M, Coates TJ