Leticia R. Moczygemba, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FAPhA

Dr. Moczygemba is a Professor in the Health Outcomes Division and Associate Director of the Texas Center for Health Outcomes Research and Education at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy (UTCOP). Her research program focuses on working with communities and health-systems to mitigate health disparities by developing innovative, patient-centered interventions to optimize medication use and health outcomes. Guided by the principles of community-engaged research, she routinely uses qualitative and quantitative techniques, program evaluation, and the science of quality improvement to advance the health of people experiencing homelessness, low-income adults, and people living in rural areas by tailoring interventions to hard-to-reach groups using end-user input and feedback.

For the past 17 years, she has worked with communities and health systems, including federally-qualified health centers, church-based organizations, pharmacies, and community partners in Virginia, Texas, and Florida, to mitigate health inequities by developing and testing multi-level interventions to optimize health outcomes. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a 5-year, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded grant that aims to refine and test a community-based mHealth intervention, comprised of GPS and text messaging components, which aims to decrease emergency department use and hospitalizations among people experiencing homelessness. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator of a statewide project in Texas, funded by the Texas Department of State Health Services/CDC, that focuses on enhancing medication therapy management (MTM) delivery in community pharmacies in medically underserved areas by improving community pharmacy workflow, engaging providers in MTM, and increasing bidirectional MTM referrals between pharmacists and physicians.

She has led a robust mixed-methods program evaluation, analyzing clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes and process measures, for a Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services Innovation Center Grant that enrolled 2,500 individuals across 22 clinics in rural, southwest Virginia and examined the impact of pharmacist-delivered MTM. Dr. Moczygemba was recently selected as a voting member of the Performance Monitoring Committee of the Austin/Travis County Homelessness Response System, and she serves as an invited member on various committees for national pharmacy organizations. Dr. Moczygemba was a Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Blick Scholar and a NIH KL2 Scholar. She was also a 2017 NIH mHealth Scholar. She was selected as an American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Leadership Fellow in 2018 and an American Pharmacists Association Fellow in 2020. Dr. Moczygemba received her PharmD and PhD from the UTCOP in 2004 and 2008, respectively, and has been recognized with the UTCOP Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. She was a faculty member at VCU from 2008 – 2016.

Education
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Pharm.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Research Profile
NCBI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=leticia%20moczygemba