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Joy Alonzo

Joy Alonzo
Joy Alonzo, ME, PharmD

Clinical Associate Professor Department of Pharmacy Practice

Contact

Department of Pharmacy Practice
Health For All
3030 East 29th Street, Suite 111
Bryan, TX 77802
jalonzo@tamu.edu
Phone: 904.505.8590
Fax: 979.436.0087

Education and Training

  • Howard University, Washington, D.C., PharmD
  • Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, ME in Engineering Science
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, BS in Pharmacy

Research Interests

  • pediatric and adolescent mental and behavioral health treatment disparities
  • evaluation of the pharmacotherapeutic treatment and outcomes in special populations
  • harm reduction strategies and their impact on substance use disorders
  • the integration of supportive care and its impact on medication management

Awards, Recognition and Service

  • Teaching Team of the Year, TX A&M Rangel School of Pharmacy (2023)
  • Early Career Researcher of the Year, TX A&M Rangel College of Pharmacy (2022)
  • Texas A&M University Teaching Team for Interprofessional Excellence (2021)
  • Texas A&M University Outstanding Interprofessional Activity (2021)
  • Teaching Team of the Year, TX A&M Rangel College of Pharmacy (2020)
  • Texas A&M University Teaching Team for Interprofessional Excellence (2019)
  • Houston Medication Safety Symposium Poster Competition Gold Medal (2017)
  • Teaching Team of the Year, TX A&M Rangel College of Pharmacy (2013)
  • Teaching Team of the Year, TX A&M Rangel College of Pharmacy (2012)
  • Teaching Team of the Year, TX A&M Rangel College of Pharmacy (2011)
  • USN Military Spouse of the Year: South Texas (2011)
  • Department of Defense Joanne Holbrook Graduate Student Scholarship (2009)

Representative Publications

  • Ayush Patel, M.S., Ph.D., Rohan Medhekar, M.Pharm., Ph.D., Melissa Ochoa-Perez, M.D., Rajender R. Aparasu, Ph.D., Wenyaw Chan, M.S., Ph.D., Jeffrey T. Sherer, Pharm.D., M.P.H., Joy Alonzo, M.E., Pharm.D., Hua Chen, M.D., Ph.D. “Care Provision and Prescribing Practices of Physicians Treating Children and Adolescents with ADHD” Journal of Psychiatric Services, Published online: February 15, 2017.
  • Alonzo, J., “Oversight and Implementation of the Prior Authorization Process for Antipsychotics in Texas Medicaid”, 2/2017.
  • Alonzo, J., “Opioid Prescription Utilization and Monitoring Plan :Texas Medicaid Health Plans”, Texas Children’s Health Plan Provider Bulletin, TX HHSC, TX OIG, 2/2017.
  • Alonzo, J., “Psychotropic Medication Utilization Review Process: Best Practices for Texas Medicaid Health Plans”, Texas Children’s Health Plan Provider Bulleting, TX HHSC, TX OIG, Navitus, 4/2017.
  • Alonzo, J., Hunter, R., “SBIRT: Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment with Adolescents”, ACAP Proceedings for Conrad Hilton Foundation Awards National Council for Behavioral Health, 4/2017.
  • Medhekar R, Fujimoto K, Aparasu RR, Bhatara V, Johnson ML,Alonzo J, Schwarzwald H, 4/2017. “Association between Physician Care Coordination and the Use of Psychotropic Polypharmacy in the Management of Pediatric Mental Disorders”; Proceedings of the AMCP Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy Annual Meeting 2017.
  • Farber, HJ, Silveira, EA, Kothar, VD, Giardino, AP, Alonzo, J. “Overuse of Oral Corticosteroids for Children with Asthma in a Large Medicaid Managed Care Program” Proceedings of the Houston Medication Safety Symposium, Baylor College of Medicine, April 2017.
  • Psychotropic Polypharmacy In The Treatment Of Children And Adolescents With Mental Disorders: Prevalence And Determinants — Medhekar R, Fujimoto K, Aparasu RR, Bhatara V, Johnson ML,Alonzo J, Schwarzwald H, Chen H, Proceedings of ISPOR 22nd Annual International Meeting, 5/2017.
  • Navneet Upadhyay, Rohan A Medhekar, Kayo Fujimoto, Rajender R Aparasu, Vinod Bhatara, Michael L Johnson, Joy P Alonzo, Heidi Schwarzwald, Hua Chen, “Physician Peer-Influence on Prescribing Psychotropic Polypharmacy in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Mental Disorders”, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 56 (10), S164.
  • R Medhekar, K Fujimoto, RR Aparasu, V Bhatara, ML Johnson, J Alonzo, H Schwarzwald, H Chen,” PSYCHOTROPIC POLYPHARMACY IN THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS: PREVALENCE AND DETERMINANTS”, VALUE IN HEALTH, 20 (5), A294-A294.
  • "New Study Shows That Vivitrol is Just as Effective as Suboxone…But Not Really”, Carlat Report, Addiction Treatment, CME Jan/Feb 2018.
  • Physician Care-Coordination and the Use of Psychotropic Polypharmacy in the Management of Pediatric Mental Disorders, Dr. Hua Chen, Dr. Rohan Medhekar, Dr. Kayo Fujimoto, Dr. Rajender Aparasu, Dr. Vinod Bhatara, Prof. Mike L. Johnson, Dr. Joy P. Alonzo, Dr. Heidi Schwarzwald, Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, 3/2018.
  • “Internet Gaming Disorder” Carlat Report, May/June 2018, 4/2018.  
  • Aylin Yucel, Ekere J Essien, Swarnava Sanyal, Osaro Mgbere, Rajender R Aparasu, Vinod S Bhatara, Joy P Alonzo, Hua Chen, “Racial/ethnic differences in the treatment of adolescent major depressive disorders (MDD) across healthcare providers participating in the medicaid program”, Journal of affective disorders, 2018, Volume 235, 155-161, 5/2018.
  • Ory MG, Lee S, Vollmer Dahlke D, Pardo N, Zhong L, McCord CE, Alonzo JP, Smith ML. Physicians' interest in different strategies for supporting pain management and opioid prescribing: A cross-sectional study. J Opioid Manag (In-press, revisions; accepted January 2022).
  • Ory, M. G., Lee, S., Smith, M. L., Alonzo, J. P., Clark, H. R., & Burdine, J. N. (2022). Differences in the attitudes towards the opioid crisis between Metropolitan and rural counties in Central Texas: Secondary data analysis using cross-sectional data. Preventive Medicine Reports, 26, 101757 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101757 04/2022.
  • Emily Warthman, JD, MPH, Joy Alonzo, PharmD, MEng, Charles W. Mathis, PhD, S. Ali Shafiee, MD, PhD, Charleen Hsuan, PhD, Rachel A. Smith, PhD, Patrick O’Neill, BA, David Schwebel, PhD, Andra Wilkinson, PhD, MSPH, Katie Witkiewitz, PhD, “Preventing Substance Use Disorders with Prescription Opioid Labeling”, Research-to-Policy Collaboration, Pennsylvania State University, https://evidence2impact.psu.edu/what-we-do/research-translation-platform/research-to-policy-collaboration/10/2022.