Kerry LaPlante

Kerry L. LaPlante is an American pharmacist, academic and researcher. She is the Dean at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy. She is a Professor of Pharmacy and former department Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Rhode Island, an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Brown University, an Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Specialist, and the Director of the Rhode Island Infectious Diseases Fellowship and Research Programs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

LaPlante has authored more than 150 publications. She has worked on treatment, prevention, outcomes, virulence inhibition, and decolonization of multiple drug resistant bacteria. She has also explored pharmacodynamic dosing indexes of antimicrobial therapy and the role of drug therapy on bacterial virulence factors such as toxin and biofilm formation. Her clinical research primarily focuses on the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programs across the Veterans Health Administration.

LaPlante is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (FCCP), the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Past President of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP). Provided by Wikipedia