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Neurology/Psychiatry Resident

W. Curt LaFrance, Jr., MD

Dr. LaFrance is the Director of Neuropsychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology (Research) at Brown Medical School.

Dr. LaFrance graduated the Medical College of Georgia in 1995 and completed the combined residency at Brown in 2001.

He completed a two-year NIMH-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship at Brown studying combined treatments of psychological nonepileptic seizures (NES) supervised by Dr. Keitner, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Blum. From that research, he submitted and was awarded a K23 Career Development Award on treatments of NES from the NINDS.

He received the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) Career Development Award in 2003.

Dr. LaFrance is an active member of the ANPA Research Committee and during the residency was the lead author on a paper on herbal and alternative treatments in neuropsychiatry, which he presented at the Annual Meeting of ANPA. Other publications include book chapters and articles on the neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy.

He has lectured nationally and internationally on topics in neuropsychiatry.