Victoria Luna B. Grieve

Victoria Luna Brennan Grieve is an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics. She obtained her PharmD in 2014 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and then completed a post-graduate Fellowship for Clinical Simulation at the VA Hospital System in Pittsburgh. She has been faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy since 2015, primarily working in the areas of ludic instructional design and queer advocacy. She’s lived in Pittsburgh all her life and maintains a spoiled existence for her wife and three perfect cats.

Dr. Grieve’s research and practice focus is on the confluence of educational experiences and game design.  Through a lens of instructional design, she has enhanced the experience in classes at the School of Pharmacy and the School of Computer and Information Science.  One such class, Drug Discovery and Development, is unique in being one of the few fully-gamified experiences on campus.  Through the application of game design principles, Dr. Grieve has made strides in enhancing student comfort and ability in what have been labeled the “21st Century Skills”. Dr. Grieve serves as a university-wide consultant for game design and gameful instructional design.