Professor, Surgery
Perelman SOM, U of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Kaplan is a general, trauma and critical care surgeon at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and is the current President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He received a BA in Biology with honors from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA in 1984 and his MD from Rutgers Medical School in Piscataway, NJ in 1988. Surgical residency was complete at the Medical College of PA (MCP; 1988-1995) with two years spent in basic research into cardiac bioenergetics and ischemic preconditioning (1991-1993). Dr. Kaplan completed a Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (1996-1997) and then joined the faculty at MCP and Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA where he directed the SICU and the Surgical Critical Care (SCC) fellowship. Seven years later he was recruited to Yale University to establish an Emergency General Surgery service for the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. Having done so he then resumed leadership in the Yale-New Haven Hospital ICU and the SCC and Acute Care Surgery fellowships. During that time he also established Tactical Emergency Medical Services for a local and then regional SWAT group, South Central SWAT, including deploying in the field with that team. Eleven years after moving to New Haven, he was recruited back to Philadelphia into his current roles. Dr. Kaplan serves in several professional societies in leadership roles (Society of Critical Care Medicine, Surgical Infection Society), and on multiple editorial boards including the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, Surgical Infections and reviews for a host of others. Research interests span models of critical care, unmeasured ion impact in acid-base balance, acute kidney injury, surgical infection, Airway Pressure Release Ventilation, and Tactical Emergency Medical Services.
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Thursday, April 21, 2022
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