Jay Kaplan, MD

Prescription Drug Monitoring in the ER

Practicing ER Physician and ACEP’s outstanding speaker of the year in 2003, Dr. Jay Kaplan joins the show to discuss the growing problem of prescription drug abuse and how it goes further than just celebrities nowadays. Dr. Kaplan will explain the warning signs and what can be done to protect our children.

Dr. Jay Kaplan is a practicing emergency physician in California. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kaplan was named the American College of Emergency Physicians' Outstanding Speaker of the Year in October 2003. Dr. Kaplan served as Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine (1985-2001) and as a Medical Staff Officer including Chief of Staff (1992-2001) at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ. As Chairman of Emergency Services for his health system (1998-2001), he led his system's emergency departments to the 98th percentile in patient satisfaction and his own emergency department was in the 90th percentile for 6 years in a row (1996-2001). As a national speaker and facilitator, Dr. Kaplan presents to and coaches hospital leadership teams, emergency departments, medical staffs and medical groups across the country to the highest level, with proven implementation strategies and specialized systems that hardwire service and operational excellence.

Dr. Kaplan continues to practice clinically in the Emergency Department because he loves the clinical practice of medicine, and caring for patients helps him remain close to the patients', the hospital staff's, and the physician's current experience.

Dr. Leigh Vinocur

7 / 2 / 2010