Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Alicia Kowalchuk, DO is an assistant professor with Baylor College of Medicine’s (BCM) Department of Family and Community Medicine and board certified in both family medicine and addiction medicine. She is medical director of InSight, the SBIRT program for the Harris Health System, treating patients at the InSight Clinic, an interdisciplinary clinic providing ambulatory addiction medicine and counseling services to Harris Health patients with substance use disorders (SUD).
She also serves as medical director at Santa Maria Hostel (SMH) which provides state-funded residential SUD treatment services to women in the greater Houston community and the Houston Recovery Center which operates a Sobering Center in partnership with the City of Houston and Houston Police Department. She is part of two SAMHSA funded initiatives, which expand and integrate on site behavioral health services and medication assisted treatment for women clients and their extended families at SMH.
Her current research includes a NIAAA funded randomized controlled trial of a pre conception counseling intervention for reducing tobacco, alcohol and marijuana exposed pregnancy risk, the CHOICES4Health study. As core faculty of the CDC funded BCM Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Practice and Implementation Center (FASD PIC), her focus is on alcohol exposed pregnancy prevention implementation in primary care practices.
Dr. Kowalchuk graduated from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, performing her internship at St. Clare’s Hospital in Manhattan. She completed her family medicine residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and then served three years with the National Health Corps providing on site prenatal, HIV, primary care and addiction medicine services at a methadone clinic in the South Bronx. She joined the BCM faculty in 2004. Her passion is caring for families affected by addiction and educating other healthcare professionals and students about effectively and compassionately delivering that care.
