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Mona Alshahawey

Mona Alshahawey,

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department: Pharmacotherapy & Translational Research
Business Email: alshahawey.mo@ufl.edu

About Mona Alshahawey

Dr.Alshahawey is a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, College of Pharmacy. Her primary focus involves computational phenotypes related to cardiovascular diseases, genetic association studies, GWAS, and machine learning. She works with Dr. Caitrin McDonough on various projects, employing programming languages such as R, Python, and SAS on real world data.

In addition to her role at the University of Florida, she hold the position of Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.

With eight years of experience, her expertise spans clinical trials, pharmacogenetics, health equity fundamentals, patient-centered outcomes, pharmacoeconomics, qualitative research, survey analysis, and comparative effectiveness research. Her educational background includes both Master’s and PhD degrees in Clinical Pharmacy – Nephrology with a focus on clinical trials. Throughout her career, she has been actively involved in various aspects of research, from study design and protocol submission to patient screening and follow-up, data collection, and statistical analysis.

Related Links:
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Research Profile

Areas of Interest
  • Cardiology
  • Hypertension
  • Nephrology
  • pharmacoeconomics

Publications

Academic Articles
2025
Pharmaceutical Care and Services in Patients with Disabilities
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability. 1-12 [DOI] 10.1007/978-3-031-40858-8_380-1.
Publisher’s Site
2024
Characterizing apparent treatment resistant hypertension in the United States: insights from the All of Us Research Program.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 31(12):2899-2907 [DOI] 10.1093/jamia/ocae227. [PMID] 39181122.
1 citation · PubMed · Publisher’s Site
2024
Cholecalciferol effect on oxidative stress and novel predictors of inflammation in hemodialysis patients: a prospective randomized trial
Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 10(1) [DOI] 10.1186/s43094-024-00696-0.
Publisher’s Site
2024
Cost-effectiveness analysis of once-weekly semaglutide vs. once-daily liraglutide administered subcutaneously in patients with overweight and obesity: a decision analysis
European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences. [DOI] DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202405_36181.
Publisher’s Site
2024
Optimal hyperglycemia thresholds in patients undergoing chemotherapy: a cross sectional study of oncologists’ practices
Supportive Care in Cancer. 32(8) [DOI] 10.1007/s00520-024-08756-0. [PMID] 39088060.
PubMed · Publisher’s Site
2022
New insights on mucormycosis and its association with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Future science OA. 8(2) [DOI] 10.2144/fsoa-2021-0122. [PMID] 35059222.
6 citations · PubMed · Publisher’s Site
2021
A genetic insight into vitamin D binding protein and COVID-19.
Medical hypotheses. 149 [DOI] 10.1016/j.mehy.2021.110531. [PMID] 33607405.
9 citations · PubMed · Publisher’s Site
2021
COVID-19 and Vitamin D deficiency; the two pandemics. Are they correlated?
International journal for vitamin and nutrition research. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Vitamin- und Ernahrungsforschung. Journal international de vitaminologie et de nutrition. 91(5-6):383-384 [DOI] 10.1024/0300-9831/a000671. [PMID] 32674673.
6 citations · PubMed · Publisher’s Site
2021
The impact of cholecalciferol on markers of vascular calcification in hemodialysis patients: A randomized placebo controlled study.
Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD. 31(2):626-633 [DOI] 10.1016/j.numecd.2020.09.014. [PMID] 33594986.
10 citations · PubMed · Publisher’s Site
2020
Sex-mediated effects of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 on the incidence and severity of COVID-19; The need for genetic implementation.
Current research in translational medicine. 68(4):149-150 [DOI] 10.1016/j.retram.2020.08.002. [PMID] 32917573.
17 citations · PubMed · Publisher’s Site
2019
Effect of febuxostat on oxidative stress in hemodialysis patients with endothelial dysfunction: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded study.
International urology and nephrology. 51(9):1649-1657 [DOI] 10.1007/s11255-019-02243-w. [PMID] 31368057.
13 citations · PubMed · Publisher’s Site
2017
Effect of Febuxostat on the Endothelial Dysfunction in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blinded Study.
American journal of nephrology. 45(5):452-459 [DOI] 10.1159/000471893. [PMID] 28463849.
20 citations · PubMed · Publisher’s Site

Education

PhD (Clinical Pharmacy)
2021 · Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
MS (Clinical Pharmacy)
2017 · Ain Shams University

Contact Details

Emails:
Business:
alshahawey.mo@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 100486
 GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
1225 CENTER DR
 GAINESVILLE FL 32610