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Jose Hernandez

Jose Hernandez
Jose Hernandez, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Contact

Mail Stop 1114
159 Reynolds Medical Building
College Station, TX 77843
jhern001@tamu.edu
Fax: 979.436.0087

Education and Training

  • University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy, Ph.D. in Pharmacoepidemiology, 2007
  • University of Maryland, School of Medicine, M.S. in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 2007
  • University of Puerto Rico, School of Public Health, M.P.H. in Epidemiology, 2001
  • University of Puerto Rico, School of Pharmacy, Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, 1999
  • University of Puerto Rico, Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, 1996

Research Interests

  • Pharmacotherapy and Transitions of Care
  • Suboptimal Prescribing among Geriatric Patients
  • Compliance with Evidence-Based Guidelines
  • Validation Methods for Administrative Claims Use in Research

Teaching Interests

  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Pharmacoeconomics
  • Research Methods
  • Biostatistics
  • Evidence-Based Medicine

Awards, Recognition and Service

  • Guest Speaker, Medication Therapy Management, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis De Potosí, Mexico, 2011
  • American Public Health Association (APHA), Medical Care Section, Program Planner, 2009-2010.
  • University of Maryland, Dr. Arthur Schwartz Award, 2007.
  • Guess Speaker, Suboptimal Prescribing among Elderly Patients, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006
  • University of Maryland, Global Health Research Award, 2005.
  • University of Maryland, Program Enrichment Fellowship, 2004-2006.
  • Pfizer Global Epidemiology, Student Fellow, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
  • Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Student Fellow, 1998.

Representative Publications

  • Martes-Martínez C, Méndez-Sepúlveda C, Millán-Molina J, Duconge-Soler J, Marín-Centeno, French-Kim M, Rivera-Miranda GC, Hernández-Muñoz JJ. Cost-utility Study of Warfarin Genotyping in the VACHS Affiliated Anticoagulation Clinic of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal. 2017, 36(3): 165-172.

  • Figueroa-Rios, D., Hernandez-Munoz, J. J., Garcia-Albarran, A., Garcia-Rodriguez, E. A., Mendez-Hernandez, G., & Velez-Rivera, S. M. (2017). Prevalence of Concurrent Prescribing of ACE-Is and ARBs among Beneficiaries of Puerto Rico's Government-Sponsored Health Care Plan During 2012 and 2013. P R Health Sci J, 36(2), 71-76.

  • Velez-Rivera, S. M., Hernandez-Munoz, J. J., Davis, S. M., Almodovar, M. G., & Mercado, J. R. (2016). NSAIDs Prescription Prevalence after a Cardiovascular Event Related Hospitalization in Medicaid Beneficiaries from Puerto Rico. P R Health Sci J, 35(4), 209-214.

  • Jiménez-Ramírez, F.J., Hernandez-Munoz, J. J., Lorenzo-Gonzalez W., Perez-Caban, Y., Soto-Toledo, K., Saavedra-Diaz, T.J., Velez-Rivera, S.M. (2015). Community Pharmacy Centered Rural Mobile Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service. Journal of Endocrinology and   Diabetes, 2(2), 8.

  • Allende-Vigo, M., Pérez, C., Hernandez-Munoz, J. J., Torres, C., Valle, Y., Rosario, R., & Suárez, E. (2013). Unequal Burden of Diabetes and Hypertension in the Adult Population of the San Juan Metropolitan Area of Puerto Rico. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism, 4(4).

  • Max, . K., Hernandez-Munoz, J. J., Sturpe, D. A., & Zuckerman, I. H. (2007). Prophylaxis for Opioid-Induced Constipation in Elderly Long-Term Care Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study of Medicare Beneficiaries. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother, 5(2), 129-136. 

  • Zuckerman, I. H., Sato, M., Hsu, V. D., & Hernandez-Munoz, J. J. (2007). Validation of a Method for Identifying Nursing Home Admissions Using Administrative Claims. BMC Health Serv Res, 7, 202.

  • Zuckerman, I. H., Hernandez-Munoz, J. J., Gruber-Baldini, A. L., Hebel, J. R., Stuart, B., Zimmerman, S., & Magaziner, J. (2005). Potentially inappropriate prescribing before and after nursing home admission among patients with and without dementia. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother, 3(4), 246-254.