Brian Borsari

Dr. Brian Borsari is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a Clinician Researcher at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He specializes in addictive behaviors, with particular focus on veterans' health, motivational interviewing, and mobile technology interventions for substance use disorders.

• PhD in Clinical Psychology (Syracuse University, 2003)
• Pre-Doctoral Internship & Postdoctoral Fellowship (Boston Consortium/Brown University)

His research explores:

• Mechanisms of change in smoking cessation
• Integrated alcohol and PTSD treatment (PC-TIME)
• Behavioral economics of substance use
• Technology-assisted interventions for veterans
• Insomnia's role in alcohol use

Recent publications focus on veterans' health (2025), mHealth applications (2025), sleep-pain interactions (2024), and cultural adaptations of behavioral therapies. Grants include NIH R01AA029031 (2021-2026) and VA HSR&D Center of Innovation projects (2019-2022).