Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, MEd

Associate Clinical Professor

Department of Clinical Pharmacy

Marco Sanchez, UCSF

[email protected]

Fax: +1 415 476-6632

521 Parnassus Avenue, Rm 3608

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

Professional background

Degrees

MAEd, 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

Research keywords

pharmacy residencies
Achievement
pharmacy
Internship and Residency
Education, Pharmacy
Communicable Diseases
pharmacists
teaching
Educational Measurement
Students, Pharmacy
Schools, Pharmacy
Cytochromes c
Faculty, Pharmacy
pharmaceutical services
curriculum

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

Gruenberg K, Brock T, MacDougall C. Longitudinal study of grit among pharmacy students: Impact of cohort and professional year. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 2022; (Epub).

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.

Nguyentana DC, Gruenberg K, Shin J.. Should multiple-choice questions get the SAQ? Development of a short-answer question writing rubric. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 2022; E-pub ahead of print.

Gruenberg K, Forrester C, Blackburn H, Lyons T, Lam A, Brock T, Gahbauer A.. Active hope: The personal and professional roles of pharmacists in climate action. Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2021; 12(4):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.

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.

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.

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.

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.