Staci Gruber
In 1991 Gruber received a B.S. from Tufts University and a B.Mus. from the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1995 she earned an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received an M.S. from Tufts University in 2000, and in 2002 went on to earn her Ph.D. from Tufts University where she worked on the Stroop effect using functional MRI. As of 2022 she is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) at McLean Hospital. Her research utilizes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine the effects of cannabanoids on the human brain. In 2017, Gruber stated that concerning legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States, "policy has outpaced science". Some of her research is conducted with private funding due to the federal government's placement of cannabis in Schedule I, having no accepted medical use. Gruber testified before the United States Congress in 2019 as an expert on the psychiatric effects of cannabis; her appearance was said by a cannabis industry newspaper to have provided the "most persuasive and thoughtful testimony" in the hearing, titled "Marijuana and America’s Health: Questions and Issues for Policy Makers". Gruber is an advisor to the Coalition for Cannabis Policy, Education, and Regulation, formed in 2021. Gruber and her spouse Patricia Cornwell live in Massachusetts. They wed in 2006. Gruber is Jewish. She is a jazz singer, and recorded two CDs .
Education and career
Staci Ann Gruber (born ) is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University.