This two-year program is designed to provide skills that are necessary to pursue a career in academia, outcomes research and basic clinical practice focused in infectious diseases. The program integrates a formal hands-on laboratory experience (80%), teaching both in the classroom and experiential, and practical clinical experience for the Infectious Disease Consult team (~20%). A major focus of this program is in research design, development, analysis and writing for final publication. Fellows are responsible for submitting their research to national and international infectious diseases meetings and submitting their papers to peer reviewed journals for publication. The pharmacology PK/PD division was developed in 2004 and has received uninterrupted funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Rhode Island foundation grants and investigator-initiated research from pharmaceutical industry. The focus of the fellowship is in the treatment, virulence inhibition, control and prevention of pathogenic drug resistant bacteria. Laboratory experiments are directed towards discovery of new knowledge in biofilm prevention and ...treatment, Antibiotic Lock Therapy (ALT), pharmacodynamic interactions of combination therapy, infection control and decolonization and high throughput screening of novel agents (natural products and synthetic) that possess antimicrobial activity. More Information can be found at https://web.uri.edu/riid/fellowship/