EDWIN L. KAPLAN, M.D.

 

The University of Chicago

Department of Surgery

Section of General Surgery

5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 4052

Chicago, IL  60637

Telephone:      773-702-6155

Fax:                 773-834-5295

Email:             ekaplan@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu

 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1962-1967      Instructor, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of

                        Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

1967-1968      Research Assistant, Section of Endocrine Research, Mayo Clinic, Graduate

                        School of Medicine, Laboratory of Dr. Claude Arnaud, Rochester, MN

1968-1971      Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago,

                        Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

1971-1975      Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago,

                        Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

1975-              Professor, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago,

                        Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

 

 

STAFF APPOINTMENTS AND PRACTICE SITES

1968-1971      Attending Physician, Department of Surgery, Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, IL

1979-1981      Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

1980-1990      Director, The University of Chicago Residency Program, Little Company of Mary Hospital, Chicago, IL

1995-2015      Member, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Chicago

1997-2001      President, Medical Staff Organization, The University of Chicago Medical Center

 

 

ACADEMIC TRAINING

1957                B.A., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

1961                M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

1961-1962      Internship, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

1962-1966      Assistant Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

1966-1967      Chief Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

1962-1967      Graduate, Course in Radioisotopes, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies Fellowship,

                        Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

 

 

BOARD CERTIFICATION

1968    American Board of Surgery

 

 

HONORS, PRIZES, AND AWARDS

Alpha Omega Alpha

Phi Beta Kappa

Voted among top teachers at The University of Chicago Medical School by graduating senior students:  1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000

Best Doctors in the U.S., 1979, John Pekkanen, Editor, Seaview Books, New York

Top Doctors in the Chicago area, Chicago Magazine 1993, 1996, 2001

Best Doctors in America, American Health Magazine, 1996, 1999

Honorary Member, Indian Association of Surgeons, 1999

Chicago Metro Area Top Doctors, American Registry LLC, 2003

Who’s Who in Medical Sciences Education, 2005

Chicago Consumers’ Checkbook, Vol. 2(4), 2007

Guide to America’s Top Surgeons, 2008

Consumer’s Checkbook Magazine, Outstanding Physicians, 2008

Consumer’s Research Council of America, “America’s Top Surgeons” 2008

Oliver Cope Meritorious Achievement Award, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, 2009

Top Doctor, The Global Directory of Who’s Who, 2009

Top Tier.com Best Physicians in Surgery, 2010

Festschrift: A Celebration of the Academic Career of Edwin L. Kaplan, MD The University of Chicago, April 16, 2010

Consumers’ Research Council of America “Guide to America’s Top Surgeons”, 2011

Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Chicago, 11/2/11

Chicago Super Doctors® 2012, 2013

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 1995

American Association of Endocrine Surgeons

            Founding Member, 1980

            President, 1982-1983

            Councillor, 1984-1985

American College of Surgeons

            Governor, 2006-2009, 2009-2012

American College of Surgeons, Metropolitan Chicago Chapter

            President, 2004-2005

American Federation for Clinical Research

American Gastroenterological Association

American Pancreatic Association

American Surgical Association

Central Society for Clinical Investigation

Central Surgical Association

Chicago Endocrine Club

Chicago Society of Gastroenterology

Chicago Surgical Society

            Vice President, 1991-1992

            President Elect, 1997

            President, 1998-1999

Endocrine Society

International Association of Endocrine Surgeons

            Councilor, 1992-1998

Illinois Surgical Society

            Board of Governors, 1991-1995

Midwest Gut Club

Ravdin-Rhoads Surgical Society

Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

Society of University Surgeons

Societe Internationale de Chirurgie

Surgical Biology Club

Western Surgical Association

 

 

INVITED, ELECTED, OR APPOINTED EXTRAMURAL SERVICE

American Surgical Association, Arrangement Committee (Chicago), 1980

American Association of Endocrine Surgeons

            Organizing Committee, Annual Meeting, 1983

            Local Arrangements Committee, Chairman, Annual Meeting (Chicago), 1987

Illinois Surgical Society, Local Arrangements Committee, Chairman, Annual Meeting

            (The University of Chicago), 1987, 1992

Central Surgical Association, Membership Committee, 1988-1989

American College of Surgeons

            Motion Picture Committee, 1991

Executive Committee, 1992-1994

            Program Committee, Liaison Member, 1995-1999

            Chairman, Medical Motion Picture Committee, 1996-1999

            SESAP III Committee

National Thyroid Cancer Cooperative Study Group, Surgical Program Director

National Thyroid Cancer Cooperative Study Group, Board of Directors

Chicago Surgical Society, Chairman, Membership Committee, 1992-1993

 

 

SERVICE

University of Chicago

1977-1979      Admissions Committee

1977-1982      Operating Room Committee

1978-1981      Institutional Tenure Committee

1979-              Clinical Services Laboratory Committee

1979-1980      Hospital Modernization Project Committee

1979-1982      Patients Incidence Committee

1979-1980      Quality Assurance Task Force

1979-1982      User Committee

1979-1980      Divisional Tenure Committee

1980-1982      Tenure Subcommittee

1980-              CRC Advisory Committee

1980-1982      CPP Planning and Review Committee

1980-1982      UCCRC Planning Committee

1980-1982      Surgical Oncology Committee

1980                Search Committee for Director of Clinical Pathology

1981-              Clinical Investigations Committee

1981                Tissue Review Subcommittee

1982                Neighborhood Advisory Committee

1983                Department of Pathology Review Committee

1983                Department of Anesthesiology Search Committee

1984-1986      Dean's Advisory Committee

1985                Department of Anatomy Review Committee

1986                Transplant Search Committee

1987                Committee on Admissions and Promotions (COAP)

1987                Surgical Oncology Search Committee

1987                Weiss Memorial Affiliation Committee

1988                Michael Reese Affiliation Committee

1988                Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology Review Committee (Chairman)

1990                Department of Anesthesiology Review Committee

1993                Section of Urology Search Committee (Chairman)

1993-              Council of the University Senate

1994-              Dean's Advisory Council

1997-2001      Trustee, University of Chicago

1997-              Executive Committee, University of Chicago

1997-2003      Patient Safety Committee

 

 

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AND NAMED LECTURES

Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, 1976

Visiting Professor, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD, September, 1982

First Harry Southwick Lectureship, Presbyterian St. Luke's, Rush Medical School, Chicago, IL, March, 1984

Michigan State University Medical School, Grand Rapids, MI, January, 1985

Visiting Professor, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, January, 1986

Visiting Professor, University of Pittsburgh, March, 1986.

Bruce White Lectureship, University of Indiana, Methodist Hospital, June, 1986

Visiting Professor, Baptist Medical Center Montclair, Birmingham, AL, March, 1987

Visiting Professor, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, MI, April, 1987

The E. John Stoller Lectureship, Allentown, PA, June, 1989

Visiting Professor, Tokyo Women's Medical Center, March, 1992

Visiting Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Grand Rounds, Camden, NJ,           December, 1992

Visiting Professor, University of Rochester, Grand Rounds, January, 1993

Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg, Interdisciplinary Symposium of Endocrine Surgery, Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 1994

Visiting Professor, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, IL, February, 1994

George Stewart, MD Visiting Professor and Lecturer, St. Agnes Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, December, 1994

Visiting Professor, Thomas Jefferson Medical School, Philadelphia, PA, January, 1995

Visiting Professor, Yonsei Medical College, Wonju, Korea, National Seoul University Medical School, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 1996

Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong Medical Center, Queen Mary Hospital, Department of Surgery, Hong Kong,

China, April, 1998

Visiting Professor, Yonsei Medical School, Wonju, Korea, April, 2002

Visiting Professor and invited speaker at Grand Rounds, University of Essen, Essen, Germany,

“The association of hyperthyroidism with non-medullary carcinoma of the thyroid,” December 4, 2003.

Invited speaker, Oliver Cope Lecture, “Techniques of Parathyroidectomy,” Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Nov. 20, 2004.

Invited speaker, Danely P. Slaughter Memorial Lecture, “Thyroid Cancer,”

St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL, October 25, 2005.

Visiting Professor and Stuart S. Roberts, M.D. Endowed Lectureship for Excellence in Surgical

Education, “Advances in the treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism,” University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, IL, November 9, 2007.

Invited speaker, Dr. Orlo Clark Festschrift, “History of the recurrent laryngeal nerve from Galen

            to Lahey,” San Francisco, CA, April 4, 2008.

Visiting Professor, “Thyroid surgery around the world,” Department of Surgery, Medical

            University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, May 13, 2008.

Visiting Professor, Endocrine Grand Rounds, “Radiation induced thyroid cancer,” University of

            Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June, 2010.

Invited speaker, Endocrine Surgery Update and Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Stuart Wilson,

            “Radiation-induced thyroid cancer: The Chicago experience,” Milwaukee, WI, June,

            2010.

Invited faculty, XOMA Experts Panel on the Treatment of Insulinomas, Scottsdale, AZ,

            February 23, 2013.

Invited faculty, Endocrine Surgery University 2013, Rochester, MN, March 7-8, 2013.

Invited speaker, The Arthur Dean Bevan Lecture, “Romancing the “shield”: Thyroid surgery from the ancients through the atomic age.”  Chicago Surgical Society, Chicago, IL, October 17, 2013.

Visiting Professor, Endocrine Surgery Grand Rounds, “Romancing the shield: Thyroid surgery from the ancients through the atomic age.” Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, October 22, 2014.

Invited speaker, Istanbul Surgical Society meeting, “Romancing the shield: A short history of thyroid surgery from the ancients through the atomic age,” Istanbul, March 13-15, 2015.

Invited speaker, Korea, April 24, 2015                                                                                                              DEVAMI İÇİN...