Dr. Alan Kaplan

Specialties: Family Medicine

About The Speaker

Alan Kaplan is a Family Physician practicing in Aurora, Ontario, Canada. He is a Chronic pain community consultant, and a Community respiratory consultant, also providing Ontario E consults in Respiratory medicine. Other positions held include:

• Regional Primary Care Lead, Central Regional Cancer Program
• Chairperson of the Family Physician Airways Group of Canada (www.fpagc.com)
• Scientific Committee GINA (Global Initiative for Asthma)
• Vice President, Respiratory Effectiveness Group
• Honorary Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine of the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore.
• Past- Chairperson of the Respiratory Section of the College of Family Physicians of Canada
• Senate member of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group
• Member of Past Canadian Consensus Guidelines for H pylori, Asthma, COPD and Sinusitis
• Member of the Health Canada Section on Allergy and Respiratory Therapies
• Co-Chair, Health Quality Ontario COPD Community Management standards committee Member
• Health Quality Ontario Asthma community management standards committee Board member
• Thrombosis Canada Medical director of local LHIN Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinics

International editor for:

• Nature’s Primary Care Respiratory Journal
• Journal of Pulmonary Therapy

Author of:

• 278 newsletter articles
• 201 peer reviewed articles
• 150 conference abstracts