Erik Groessl, PhD

Title	Executive Director
Biography Dr. Groessl has served as Center Director of the UCSD Health Services Research Center since 1999 and as Executive Director since 2014. He is a Professor of Public Health at UCSD and is a Principal Investigator at the VA San Diego. He received his Clinical Psychology PhD in 1999 from the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program with a specialization in Behavioral Medicine/ Health Psychology. Dr. Groessl conducts research in the general areas of: Integrative Medicine Behavioral Interventions Veterans and military health Cost-effectiveness Health-related quality of life Patient self-management His current projects focus on the benefits of yoga for older adults and for military veterans with chronic pain and/or PTSD. He also conducts cost-effectiveness analyses for a variety of different projects. Currently, he serves as the Yoga Treatment Champion and as the Cost-Effectiveness Lead for a VA Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) project. The SCEPTER project (CSP# 2009) is national multi-site comparative effectiveness trial of non-pharmacological treatments for chronic low back pain among VA patients. He is also conducting a 2-year VA RR&D-funded pilot RCT of yoga enhanced with mantram practice for veterans with chronic pain and PTSD.
Phone	(858) 642-6347
Email	egroessl@ucsd.edu

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