Clinical Practice Site:
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Providence, RI

Education:

• B.S., Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, 1980
• M.S., Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Rhode Island, 1986
• Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 1989
• Ph.D., Psychology, University of Rhode Island, 1990

Research Interests:
Dr. Dufresne is a Professor of Pharmacy at the URI College of Pharmacy and a Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy Specialist at the Providence VA Medical Center. His educational background includes his pharmacy degrees and certifications as well as earned doctorates in both pharmacology and psychology. He is engaged in teaching psychiatric and neurologic pharmacotherapy to students of pharmacy, nursing, medicine, and assorted allied health fields. He also is an active member of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) and is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacy. In addition to these activities, he provides clinical service at the Providence VAMC to psychiatric outpatients while often providing consults for inpatients as well. His research over the course of his career has including work in the pharmacotherapy of affective disorders, depression in schizophrenia, antipsychotic pharmacotherapy, mood disorders in the elderly, brain reward mechanisms, and schizophrenic typology. Over the past decade, he has spent much of his attention researching the effects of atypical antipsychotics on metabolic disorders, and has published extensively in the area of antipsychotic induced dyslipidemia.
 

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