Kerry LaPlante, Pharm.D.

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

University of Rhode Island

Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Department of Medicine, Division of Biology,

Medicine and Infectious Diseases

VAMC (151)

Research Building #35

830 Chalkstone Avenue

Providence, RI  02908

Tel: 401/273-7100 #2339

Email: KerryTedesco@uri.edu

                      Dr. LaPlante is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island's College of Pharmacy. She completed her Doctor of Pharmacy and Post-Doctorial Fellowship in infectious diseases/pharmacotherapy at Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan. Her foremost research interest is in infectious diseases, specifically, multi drug resistant gram-positive bacteria, biofilms and toxin production. Her research laboratory and clinical practice site is located at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island. She is published in peer-reviewed journals such as Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Pharmacotherapy, Expert Opinion in Pharmacotherapy, and Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease and her research has been presented in Denmark, France, Czech Republic and throughout the United States.