Brian Borsari, PhD

Professor In Residence
M_Psychiatry
[email protected]
+1 415 221-4810 ext. 26078

Brian Borsari received his PhD in clinical psychology from Syracuse University in 2003. Dr. Borsari is currently a Health Behavior Consultant and Clinician Researcher at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His research interests there involve the assessment and treatment of addictive behaviors, training VA staff in motivational interviewing and other client-centered communication to facilitate behavior change, and developing interventions to assist student service members/veterans who are attending college. He is also Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. His research conducted through the Northern California Institute of Research and Education (NCIRE), also known as the Veterans Health Research Institute, include the development and implementation of brief motivational interventions with college student drinkers, the social influences on alcohol (e.g., modeling and norms), high risk behaviors such as pregaming and drinking games, development and evaluation of interventions using mobile technology, and in-session processes of motivational interviewing that are related to behavior change.

Publications

Care Models to Improve Pain and Reduce Opioids Among Patients Prescribed Long-Term Opioid Therapy: The VOICE Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA internal medicine

Krebs EE, Becker WC, Nelson DB, DeRonne BM, Jensen AC, Kats AM, Morasco BJ, Frank JW, Makris UE, Allen KD, Naylor JC, Mixon AS, Bohnert A, Reznik TE, Painter JT, Hudson TJ, Hagedorn HJ, Manuel JK, Borsari B, Purcell N, Hammett P, Amundson EC, Kerns RD, Barbosa MR, Garvey C, Jones EJ, Noh MY, Okere JB, Bhushan S, Pinsonnault J, Williams BE, Herbst E, Lagisetty P, Librodo S, Mapara PS, Son E, Tat C, Marraffa RA, Seys RL, Baxley C, Seal KH, VOICE Study Group

Rationale and design of a multisite randomized clinical trial examining an integrated behavioral treatment for veterans with co-occurring chronic pain and opioid use disorder: The pain and opioids integrated treatment in veterans (POSITIVE) trial.

Contemporary clinical trials

Vowles KE, Witkiewitz K, Clarke E, Schmidt Z, Borsari B, Edwards KE, Korecki JR, Moniz-Lewis DI, Bondzie JA, Mullins C, Thoreson CI, Delacruz J, Wilkins CH, Nelson S, Delventura J, Henderson R, Katz A, Hua W, Watson E, Baxley C, Canlas BR, Pendleton T, Herbst E, Batki S

Whole Health Options and Pain Education (wHOPE): A Pragmatic Trial Comparing Whole Health Team vs Primary Care Group Education to Promote Nonpharmacological Strategies to Improve Pain, Functioning, and Quality of Life in Veterans-Rationale, Methods, and I

Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)

Seal KH, Becker WC, Murphy JL, Purcell N, Denneson LM, Morasco BJ, Martin AM, Reddy K, Iseghem TV, Krebs EE, Painter JM, Hagedorn H, Pyne JM, Hixon J, Maguen S, Neylan TC, Borsari B, DeRonne B, Gibson C, Matthias MS, Frank JW, Krishnaswamy A, Li Y, Bertenthal D, Chan A, Nunez A, McCamish N