Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, MD
Pathologist | Forensic Pathology
245 Waterman St Suite 100 Providence RI, 02906About
Dr. Elizabeth Laposata is a pathologist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Laposata is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Laposata can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Laposata may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
University of Maryland At Baltimore / Professional Schools 1979
University of Maryland School of Medicine 1979
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- Forensic Pathology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Sagittal liver transection--an injury from improperly worn shoulder harness seatbelts: a report of two cases.
- Rhode Island Office of the State Medical Examiner: pathology in the public interest.
- Cocaine-induced heart disease: mechanisms and pathology.
- The need for scientific approaches in forensic pathology.
- Passive inhalation of free-base cocaine ('crack') smoke by infants.
- Synthesis and degradation of fatty acid ethyl esters by cultured hepatoma cells exposed to ethanol.
- Fatty acid ethyl esters in adipose tissue. A laboratory marker for alcohol-related death.
- Evaluation of sudden death in psychiatric patients with special reference to phenothiazine therapy: forensic pathology.
- Hepatic lipase in the rat ovary. Ovaries cannot synthesize hepatic lipase but accumulate it from the circulation.
- Thrombomodulin, an endothelial anticoagulant protein, is absent from the human brain.
- Hepatic lipase. Synthesis, processing, and secretion by isolated rat hepatocytes.
- Metabolism of ethanol by human brain to fatty acid ethyl esters.
- Presence of nonoxidative ethanol metabolism in human organs commonly damaged by ethanol abuse.
- Collection of trace evidence from bombing victims at autopsy.
- Positional asphyxia during law enforcement transport.
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