Margaret Malone, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Albany Campus 
Tel: (518) 694-7275
E-mail: margaret.malone@acphs.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Wales

Courses Taught at ACPHS:

• Clinical Nutrition Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience

Research Interests:

• Outcome assessment in obesity, including changes in medication use, health-related quality of life assessment and factors influencing weight loss.

Selected Publications:

• Cerulli J, Malone M. Community Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience in Women’s Health Promotion. American Journal of Pharmacy Education 2008;72(2) Article 25.
  
  Alger-Mayer S. Polimeni J, Malone M. Pre-operative weight loss as a predictor of long term success following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Obesity Surgery 2008; 18 (7):772-5. DOI 10.1007s11695-008-9482-2.
  
  Alger-Mayer S. Rosati C, Polimeni J, Malone M. Pre-operative binge eating status and gastric bypass surgery : a long term outcome study. Obesity Surgery 2009; 19:139-45. DOI 10.1007/s11695-008-9540-9.
  
  Malone M, Alger-Mayer S, Polimeni JM. Antidepressant drug therapy does not affect weight loss one year after gastric bypass surgery. Obes Surg 2011. DOI 10.1007/s11695-010-0351-4. Published on line 1/14/11.

Recent abstracts:

• 2011: Malone M, Gallati C, Lindstrom J. Impact of change in duration of therapy with Ursodiol after gastric bypass surgery. ACCP annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
  
  2011: Malone M, Polimeni JM, Alger-Mayer S. Health related quality of life up to four years after bariatric surgery. Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL.
  
  2011: Malone M, Alger-Mayer S, Lindstrom J. Efficacy of Orlistat 60mg for recommended weight loss before bariatric surgery. Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting Orlando, FL.
  
  2010: Malone M, Alger-Mayer S, Lindstrom J, Bailie GR. Iron deficiency and anemia after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Encore. ACCP Annual Meeting 2010, Austin, TX.
  
  2010: Malone M, Alger-Mayer S, Lindstrom J, Bailie GR. Iron deficiency and anemia after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM), 2010 Annual meeting, Puerto Rico.
  
  2009: Malone M, Alger-Mayer S, Polimeni J. Do patients taking antidepressants have the same one year outcome after gastric bypass surgery? Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2009,Washington, DC.

Educational and Professional Affiliations:

• > Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 
• > Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy 
• > Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 
• > Fellow of the Obesity Society