Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, MA

Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Gruenberg
Marco Sanchez
[email protected]
Fax: +1 415 476-6632
521 Parnassus Avenue, Rm 001
UCSF Box 0622
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States

Links

UCSF Profiles

Affiliations

Education programs

PharmD Degree Program

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

Professional background

Degrees

MA, Education (Health Professions Focus), University of California, Berkeley, 2019
PharmD, University of California, San Francisco, 2015
BS, University of Notre Dame, 2011

Postgraduate training

PGY2, Infectious Diseases/Education, University of California, San Francisco, 2017
PGY1, Pharmacy Practice Residency, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 2016

Training and professional development

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California San Francisco, 2022

Research keywords

  • pharmacy residencies
  • Achievement
  • Infectious Encephalitis
  • Balamuthia mandrillaris
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Internship and Residency
  • pharmacy
  • Education, Pharmacy
  • Amebiasis
  • Educational Measurement
  • Students, Pharmacy
  • Schools, Pharmacy
  • Faculty, Pharmacy
  • pharmaceutical services
  • curriculum

Publications

Spottiswoode N, Haston JC, Hanners NW, Gruenberg K, Kim A, DeRisi JL, Wilson MR. Challenges and advances in the medical treatment of granulomatous amebic encephalitis. Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2024 Jan-Dec; 11:20499361241228340.
Bystritsky R, Gruenberg K, Abdoler E, Hilts-Horeczko A, Doernberg SB. Inter-rater reliability assessment of antibiotic prescription quality by infectious diseases physicians, fellows, and pharmacists. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023; 3(1):e227.
Spottiswoode N, Pet D, Kim A, Gruenberg K, Shah M, Ramachandran A, Laurie MT, Zia M, Fouassier C, Boutros CL, Lu R, Zhang Y, Servellita V, Bollen A, Chiu CY, Wilson MR, Valdivia L, DeRisi JL. Successful Treatment of Balamuthia mandrillaris Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis with Nitroxoline. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 01; 29(1):197-201.
Hsia SL, Gruenberg K, Nguyen J, La A, MacDougall C. Student Performance Outcomes and Perceptions in Two Content Areas in Conventional Versus Integrated Pharmacy Curricula. Am J Pharm Educ. 2023 04; 87(4):ajpe9164.
Trinh AM, Vu TT, Gruenberg K, MacDougall C. Changes in Pharmacy Students' Self-Reported Learning Strategies Across a Four-Year Doctor of Pharmacy Program. Am J Pharm Educ. 2023 04; 87(3):ajpe8991.
Hsia SL, Brooks J, Yao E, Gruenberg K, Finley P. Impact of an auditory hallucination simulation coupled with a speaker diagnosed with schizophrenia on mental illness stigma in pharmacy students. Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2022 11; 14(11):1397-1403.
Yang S, Patel P, Corcoran A, Dobberpuhl E, Isidro S, Le D, Klassen A, Rho J, Tran D, Beuttler R, Noori Nassr N, Gruenberg K, Wong S-F. Gaps in Patient Education on Safe Handling and Disposal of Oral Chemotherapy Drugs: A Pilot Prospective Cohort Survey Study. Journal of Contemporary Pharmacy Practice. 2022; 2(70):22-33.
Gruenberg K, Brock T, MacDougall C. Longitudinal study of grit among pharmacy students: Impact of cohort and professional year. Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2022 07; 14(7):835-839.
Nguyentan DC, Gruenberg K, Shin J. Should multiple-choice questions get the SAQ? Development of a short-answer question writing rubric. Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2022 05; 14(5):591-596.
Le M, Luong S, Mong R, Gruenberg K, Clinard V. Examining participant perceptions of the UCSF school of pharmacy master preceptor program. Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2022 03; 14(3):329-335.
Gruenberg K, Abdoler E, O'Brien BC, Schwartz BS, MacDougall C. . How do pharmacists select antimicrobials? A model of pharmacists' therapeutic reasoning processes . Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2022; 5(4):398-405.
Katherine Gruenberg, Catherine Forrester, Hayley Blackburn, Tracy Lyons, Ashley Lam, Tina Brock, Alice Gahbauer. Active hope: The personal and professional roles of pharmacists in climate action. JACCP JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2021 Dec 8; 4(12):1508-1510.
Ereca Nguyen, Hugo Aguilar, Yaser Khoshal, Conan MacDougall, Katherine Gruenberg. Characterisation of an elective course on climate change for health professional students. Pharmacy Education. 2021 Jul 8; 216-221.
Stephanie L. Hsia, Crystal Zhou, Katherine Gruenberg, Trang D. Trinh, Mitra Assemi. Implementation and evaluation of a virtual objective structured clinical examination for pharmacy students. JACCP JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2021 May 16; 4(7):837-848.
Alice Gahbauer, Katherine Gruenberg, Catherine Forrester, Amir Saba, Samuel Schauer, Michelle Fravel, Ashley Lam, Tina Brock. Climate care is health care: A call for collaborative pharmacy action. Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2021 Feb 21; 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.
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.
Jeffres MN, Kufel WD, Biehle LR, Cho JC, Narayanan N, Gruenberg K, Garcia J, MacDougall C. A Comprehensive Survey of Infectious Diseases Curriculum Among US Pharmacy Schools. Am J Pharm Educ. 2019 11; 83(9):7168.
Janna Afanasjeva, Katherine Gruenberg. Pharmacists as environmental stewards: Strategies for minimizing and managing drug waste. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy. 2019 Sep 1; 13:100164.
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.
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.