Susan Tross, PhD

Susan Tross, PhD, is a Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Tross is Co-Director of the HIV Center's Clinical Translation Core.

Since 1986, Dr. Tross has conducted several HIV intervention and substance abuse intervention research programs, and has particularly worked on community-based, peer-based, and street-outreach programs  with drug-involved women. She is currently the Co-Lead Investigator of a NIDA Clinical Trials Network  implementation survey of (1) PrEP knowledge, readiness, barriers, facilitators, and strategies for PrEP delivery and use and (2) knowledge, readiness, barriers, facilitators, and strategies for delivery of Opioid Use Related Services in three stakeholder types (agency directors, providers, MSM who use substances (SU-MSM) and opioid users (PWUO)) in community STI clinics and syringe services programs or substance use treatment programs in eight high HIV incidence cities in the Southern US.