LewisJKaplanMDFACS, FCCM, FCCP
General Surgery • Philadelphia, PATrauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care
Professor of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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Office
3900 Woodland Avenue
Surgical Services
Philadelphia, PA 19104Phone+1 215-823-6804Fax+1 215-823-4039
Summary
- Dr. Lewis Kaplan is a general surgeon in Philadelphia, PA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and has been in practice 29 years. He specializes in trauma surgery & surgical critical care and is experienced in trauma and surgical critical care.
Education & Training
UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 1996 - 1997
Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University HospitalResidency, Surgery, 1988 - 1995
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolClass of 1988
Certifications & Licensure
PA State Medical License 1990 - 2024
FL State Medical License 2014 - 2021
CT State Medical License 2002 - 2014- American Board of Surgery Surgery
- American Board of Surgery Surgical Critical Care
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FCCM) American College of Critical Care Medicine
- Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- They Will Come, You Must Build It: A Modified Delphi Process Applied to Preparing Acute Care Facilities Infrastructure for High-Consequence Infectious Diseases.Justin Chan, Eileen F Searle, Dmitry Khodyakov, Logan Denson, Andrea Echeverri
Health Security. 2024-10-22 - 1 citationsDose-Dependent Tranexamic Acid Blunting of Penumbral Leukocyte Mobilization and Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Following Traumatic Brain Injury: An In Vivo Murine St...Matthew C Culkin, Priyanka Bele, Anastasia P Georges, Patricia Santos, Grace Niziolek
Neurocritical Care. 2024-10-01 - Publisher Correction: European society for trauma and emergency surgery member-identified research priorities in emergency surgery: a roadmap for future clinical resea...Gary Alan Bass, Lewis Jay Kaplan, Christine Gaarder, Raul Coimbra, Nathan John Klingensmith
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 2024-10-01
Other
- Management of splenic injury in the adult trauma patientKaplan LJ, Maung AA
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/management-of-splenic-injury-in-the-adult-trauma-patient
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-08-16 - Surgical management of splenic injury in the adult trauma patientKaplan LJ, Maung AA
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/surgical-management-of-splenic-injury-in-the-adult-trauma-patient
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-06-28
Press Mentions
More Than Two Years into the Pandemic, Hospital Care Still May Not Save You from Dying of COVID-19August 10th, 2022- Have I Got the Flu or Covid-19? Could I Have Both?September 7th, 2020
- When Viruses Collide: Flu Season During PandemicAugust 26th, 2020
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