UCSF

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, MEd

Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Gruenberg
Marco Sanchez, UCSF
[email protected]
Fax: +1 415 476-6632
521 Parnassus Avenue, Rm 3605
UCSF Box 0622
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States

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What I do

I’m a clinician-educator working in the specialty area of infectious diseases. My research interests broadly include teaching and learning in pharmacy education, infectious diseases, and environmental sustainability.

Departmental research area

education research

My research expertise

development and assessment of novel teaching methods

Clinical expertise

infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship

Degrees

MAEd, University of California, Berkeley, 2019
PGY2, Infectious Diseases/ Education, University of California, San Francisco, 2017
PGY1, Pharmacy Practice Residency, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 2016
PharmD, University of California, San Francisco, 2015
BS, University of Notre Dame, 2011

Research keywords

pharmacy residencies, Achievement, Non-Narcotic Analgesics, Acetaminophen, pharmacy, Internship and Residency, Lipid Peroxidation, Education, Pharmacy, pharmacists, teaching, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin, Fatty Acids, Unsaturated, Students, Pharmacy, Cytochromes c, Central Nervous System Neoplasms
1. Five Clinical Pharmacy faculty members are recognized for their efforts in education
2. Student-taught education finds its footing in PharmD curriculum
3. Update from the Dean: We are rising to the challenges presented by COVID-19
4. Impact of Curriculum Transformation Awards given for assessing new PharmD curriculum
5. 2019 Koda-Kimble Seed Award supports School of Pharmacy’s boldest ideas
6. Update from the Dean – July 2018
7. Gruenberg receives sustainability award for second straight year
8. Update from the Dean – March 2018
9. Meet Clinical Pharmacy’s newest faculty members
10. Gruenberg connects sustainability and clinical pharmacy
1. Excellence in Experiential Precepting Award, UCSF School of Pharmacy, 2020
2. Dean's Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Pharmacy, 2019
3. Community Outreach Student Alliance Faculty Advisor of the Year, UCSF School of Pharmacy, 2019
4. UCSF Sustainability Award in the Faculty Category, UCSF Advisory Committee on Sustainability, 2018
5. Dean's Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Pharmacy, 2018

Publications

Nguyen E, Aguilar H, Khoshal Y, MacDougall C, Gruenberg K. Characterisation of an elective course on climate change for health professional students. Pharmacy Education. 2021; 21(1):216-221.
Gruenberg K, Hsia S, O’Brien B, O’Sullivan P.. Exploring Multiple Perspectives on Pharmacy Students’ Readiness for Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2021; 5(85):Article 8358.
Hsia S, Zhou C, Gruenberg K, Trinh T, Assemi M.. Implementation and Evaluation of a Virtual Objective Structured Clinical Examination for Pharmacy Students. Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2021; 4:837–848.
Gahbauer A, Gruenberg K, Forrester C, Saba A, Schauer S, Fravel M, Lam A, Brock T.. Climate Care is Health Care: A Call for Collaborative Pharmacy Action. Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2021; 4(5):631-638.
Gruenberg K, Hsia S, O'Brien B, O'Sullivan P. Exploring Multiple Perspectives on Pharmacy Students' Readiness for Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences. Am J Pharm Educ. 2021 05; 85(5):8358.
Katherine Gruenberg, Trang D Trinh, Elizabeth Joyce, Conan MacDougall. 1121. Implementation and Evaluation of a Virtual Microbiology Laboratory for Pharmacy Students. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2020 Dec 31; 7(Supplement_1):s590-s591.
Katherine Gruenberg, Emily Abdoler, Bridget C OBrien, Brian Schwartz, Conan MacDougall. 1133. Qualitative Analysis of Pharmacists’ Therapeutic Reasoning Processes Applied to Antimicrobial Selection and Stewardship Activities. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2020 Dec 31; 7(Suppl 1):s595-s596.
Gruenberg K, Brock T, Garcia J, MacDougall C. A Randomized, Crossover Pilot Study of a Novel Web-Based/Mobile Platform for Collaborative Small Group Practice in Therapeutic Reasoning. J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2020 Jan-Dec; 7:2382120520977189.
Emily Abdoler, Katherine Gruenberg, Brian Schwartz, Brian Schwartz, Conan MacDougall. 2544. An Exploratory Study of Resource Utilization by Practitioners when Managing Infections. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2019 Oct 23; 6(Supplement_2):s883-s884.
Afanasjeva J, Gruenberg K. Pharmacists as environmental stewards: Strategies for minimizing and managing drug waste. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy. 2019; 13: Article 100164.
Gruenberg K, Brock T, MacDougall C. Longitudinal Associations Between Grit, Academic Outcomes, and Residency Match Rates Among Pharmacy Students. Am J Pharm Educ. 2019 08; 83(6):6947.
Shin J, Gruenberg K, Brock T. A novel online platform promotes asynchronous class preparation and thought transparency. Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2019 10; 11(10):1069-1076.
Shin J, Gruenberg K. Test-enhanced learning in a pharmacy therapeutics course. Pharmacy Education. 2019; 19(1):100-107.
Nguyen L, Garcia J, Gruenberg K, MacDougall C. Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas Infections: Hard to Treat, But Hope on the Horizon? Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2018 Jun 06; 20(8):23.
Gruenberg K, Apollonio D, MacDougall C, Brock T. Sustainable Pharmacy: Piloting a Session on Pharmaceuticals, Climate Change, and Sustainability within a U.S. Pharmacy Curriculum. Innovations in Pharmacy. 2017; 4(8):Article 3.
Fraser E, Gruenberg K, Rubenstein JL. New approaches in primary central nervous system lymphoma. Chin Clin Oncol. 2015 Mar; 4(1):11.
Hanna RF, Ward TJ, Chow DS, Lagana SM, Moreira RK, Emond JC, Weintraub JL, Prince MR. An evaluation of the sensitivity of MRI at detecting hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients utilizing an explant reference standard. Clin Imaging. 2014 Sep-Oct; 38(5):693-7.
Yin H, Vergeade A, Shi Q, Zackert WE, Gruenberg KC, Bokiej M, Amin T, Ying W, Masterson TS, Zinkel SS, Oates JA, Boutaud O, Roberts LJ. Acetaminophen inhibits cytochrome c redox cycling induced lipid peroxidation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2012 Jun 29; 423(2):224-8.
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