Peter Philip Grau, PhD

Dr. Peter Grau is an Assistant Professor in the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychiatry, staff psychologist at the Ann Arbor VA, and research investigator at the VA Center for Clinical Management Research. Dr. Grau’s research focuses on advancing the implementation of evidence-based approaches for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) across multiple levels of care and healthcare settings, with the goal of improving mental health outcomes, especially for Veterans and those with common comorbidities. His work also explores the intersection of human- and digitally-delivered interventions across multiple timescales and other therapeutic avenues of change to design and implement scalable interventions delivering effective treatments for patients. Dr. Grau’s research aims to shift healthcare practice toward data-driven, culturally informed treatment for trauma exposure and PTSD nationally and globally.

Areas of Interest

- Posttraumatic stress and common comorbidities (e.g., substance use)
- Flexible methods of delivery for evidence-based mental health treatments
- Implementation science
- Innovative, adaptive trial designs integrating human- and digitally-delivered interventions

- · Predictors of treatment effectiveness in posttraumatic stress disorder across multiple levels of care (i.e., outpatient, intensive outpatient, residential)
- · Implementation of evidence-based practices for posttraumatic stress disorder across levels of care
- · Therapeutic mechanisms of change in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment
- · Mindfulness and compassion-based approaches to anxiety and traumatic stress
- · Cross-cultural adaptations of transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Integration of artificial intelligence into measurement of evidence-based treatment delivery and fidelity