Kerry L. LaPlante, Pharm.D., FCCP, FIDSA, FIDP

Professor and Chair
1. Infectious Diseases Research Program, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, RI, United States 2. Center of Innovation in Long-Term Support Services, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, RI, United States 3. College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States 5. Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Division of Infectious Diseases, Providence, RI

Disclosure: Merck (Advisor or Review Panel member, Research Grant or Support)Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. (Research Grant or Support)Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (Research Grant or Support)Shionogi, Inc. (Research Grant or Support)

Dr. LaPlante is a tenured Professor and Chair of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island, an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Brown University, an Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Specialist, and Director of the Rhode Island Infectious Diseases Fellowship and Research Programs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, RI. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology, with a Psychology minor at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, and a BS in Biopharmaceutical Sciences, and Doctor of Pharmacy from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in infectious diseases pharmacotherapy at the Anti-infective Research Laboratory at Wayne State University. She is the past president of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP), an elected Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Dr. LaPlante’s research program advances therapy through identifying optimal pharmacodynamic dosing indexes of antimicrobial therapy to optimize activity and prevent resistance development. She also aims to understand the role of drug therapy on bacterial virulence factors such as toxin and biofilm formation and evaluating the predictors and outcomes of infections across the national VA healthcare system. Dr. LaPlante has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles throughout her career in high impact peer-reviewed journals. Dr. LaPlante has been awarded multi-year funding for two postdoctoral research fellows from the Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) national office. This is one of only two OAA-awarded pharmacy fellows in the VA nationally. Her fellowship is nationally recommended fellowships by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), one of a few ACCP recommended fellowship in the VA and one of three recommended Infectious Diseases training research fellowship for pharmacists in the country.