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Aisling Caffrey, Ph.D., M.S.

Assistant Professor, Pharmacoepidemiology
Department of Pharmacy Practice
aisling.caffrey@uri.edu

Publications | Honors & Awards
     

Research Interests

 

  

The organizing themes of Dr. Caffrey’s research include pharmacoepidemiologic methodology and infectious disease pharmacoepidemiology evaluating the beneficial and unintended effects of antibiotics. 

Research Expertise

  • Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • Infectious Disease Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Comparative Effectiveness Research and Outcomes Research
  • Drug Utilization and Drug Safety Research
  • Electronic Health Record Databases
  • Study Design and Methodology
  • Advanced Analytic Methods
     

Research Site

  

Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, RI
     

Education

  

Bachelor of Arts, Pre-Health and Double Major in Psychology and Spanish Linguistics, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, 2003

Master of Science, Epidemiology, Concentration in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Rensselaer, NY, 2005

Doctorate, Pharmacoepidemiology, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 2009

 

Experience

 

  

Assistant Professor, Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Feb 2012 - present

Investigator, Research Health Science Specialist, Research Service, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2011 - present

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, 2010 - Feb 2012

     
Post Doctorial Training  

Infectious Disease Pharmacoepidemiology, Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, 2009-2011
     
Select Publications  

Caffrey AR, LaPlante KL. Changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Veterans Affairs Health System, 2002-2009. Infection 2011 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print]

Caffrey AR, Woodmansee SB, Crandall N, Tibert C, Fielding C, Mikolich DJ, Vezeridis MP, LaPlante KL. Low adherence to outpatient pre-operative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus decolonization therapy. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2011; 32(9):930-2.

Caffrey AR, Quilliam BJ, LaPlante KL. Risk factors associated with mupirocin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Hospital Infection 2010; 76(3):206-10.

Caffrey AR, Quilliam BJ, LaPlante KL. Comparative effectiveness of linezolid and vancomycin among a national cohort of patients infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2010; 54(10):4394-400.

LaPlante KL, Caffrey AR, Gupta K. Prevention of surgical-site infections. New England Journal of Medicine 2010; 362(16):1540-1; author reply 2-3.

     
Honors & Awards  

International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology Travel Scholarship for the 27th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE), August 13-17, 2011 in Chicago, IL

American Society of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Fellow Grant, 50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), September 11-15th, 2010 in Boston, MA

International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology Travel Scholarship for the 26th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE), August 19-22, 2010 in Brighton, England

Outstanding Reviewer, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2009

Takeda Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship Grant, 2008-2009

Wal-Mart Conference Scholarship Recipient, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, 2008