Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

Dr. Kaplan is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey. A board-certified psychiatrist in adult, child, and adolescent psychiatry, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, he completed his psychiatric training at New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center. In academia, he has participated in research studies and published numerous papers and book chapters on suicide and depression, ADHD, substance use, violence, and psychopharmacology. He is also widely recognized in medical education, having chaired multiple courses and symposia at major national meetings and served as a visiting professor at universities in Italy and Spain. In the policy arena, he has contributed to several New Jersey state committees focused on child psychiatry. His work has been recognized with awards from Cornell University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Mental Health Association. Dr. Kaplan is a frequent guest speaker on network and local cable broadcasts, where he comments on issues affecting the community. As an administrator, he is well known for his leadership as a physician executive and has served as Chief Medical Officer for behavioral health at major hospital systems in New Jersey. As a clinician, he follows a patient-centered model that considers the needs of the whole person, rather than focusing on a single diagnosis.