Erik Groessl, PhD

Dr. Groessl is a Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and is a Principal Investigator at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. 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 also serves as Center Director of the UCSD Health Services Research Center.

Dr. Groessl conducts research in the general areas of:

• Integrative Medicine and Health
• Behavioral Interventions
• Cost-effectiveness
• Health-related quality of life
• Patient self-management
• Veterans and military health
• Aging and Longevity

His current projects focus on health economics and sustaining the practice and benefits of yoga for military veterans with chronic low back pain.