Harold S Kaplan, MD
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ADJUNCT PROFESSOR | Population Health Science and Policy

Dr. Kaplan’s research interests are directed at patient safety and focused on establishing standardized medical event reporting for error prevention and management. Dr. Kaplan served as the principal investigator for NHLBI RO1 funded research that led to the development and implementation of an event reporting system in transfusion medicine (MERS-TM), aspects of which have been used in hospitals in the US, Canada, Ireland, Croatia and Spain. Additionally, core components of this system have recently been integrated into the US National Biovigilance Network program.  Dr. Kaplan was honored in 2005 by the AABB for his efforts in transfusion safety with the first Hemphill-Jordan Award.

Dr. Kaplan was also principal investigator on Columbia University’s AHRQ U18 grant, “Reporting Systems and Learning: Best Practices.” which is being implemented nationally as a general medical event reporting system.


He currently serves on the Patient Safety Advisory Editorial Board of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and on the NIH REDS-III Observational Study Monitoring Board.

MD, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine