Kate L. Lapane
Contact Information
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health
830 E. Main Street, Suite 5040
Box 980212
Richmond, VA 23298
Phone: 804-628-2506
email: kllapane@vcu.edu
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1995, PhD Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1991, MS Statistics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1987, BA Honors, Mathematics/Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Research Interests
Pharmacoepidemiology
Research included in this domain spans multiple settings (primary care, nursing homes, hospitals) and reflects multiple interests all relating to medication use. Pharmacoepidemiologic research focusses on geriatric populations, as well as populations marginalized by US society (nursing home residents, racial/ethnic minorities). Research includes documention quality of medication care and the factors that drive distributions of medication use, adverse effects of medications, and beneficial effects of medications in populations systematically excluded from clinical trials. Research includes intervention studies using health information technology to improve all aspects of patient-centered pharmacy care.
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Derby CA, Winkleby MA, Lapane KL, Stone
EJ. Community-Based Prevention Studies: Intervention
Lessons for Women. In: Psychosocial and Behavioral
Factors in Women’s Health Care, Gallant SJ,
Keita GP, Royak-Schaler R, eds. Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association, 1995.
Lapane KL. Analytic strategies for the evaluation of pharmacoepidemiologic studies. In: Introduction to Pharmacoepidemiology, 3rd edition, Hartzema A, Porta M, Cincinnati, OH: Harvey Whitney Books, 1998.
Gifford D, Lapane KL. Using Clinical Databases to Evaluate the Use of Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Nursing Homes. Research and Practice in Alzheimer's Disease 2000.
