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Louis Caplan MD

Professor

Neurology

Faculty Appointment:

Neurology

    

Contact Information:

  
Title:   Physician, Professor
Office:   DA-778
Phone:   667-0571
Fax:   617-667-8695
Email:   lcaplan@bidmc.harvard.edu
Address:   Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 330 Brookline Ave; DA-778
 Boston, MA 02215

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Areas of Interest:

Imaging, Radiopharmacy

 Neuroscience, Neurobiology, CNS Patient Oriented / Translational  

Major Research Theme:

All aspects of cerebrovascular disease especially: posterior circulation disease, brain hemorrhage, brain embolism. Transient global amnesia. Correlation of clinical symptoms and signs with stroke location and stroke etiology. Utility of various diagnostic techniques in stroke diagnosis.

Select Major Publications:    List of Publications via PubMed database at NIH NLM

Chung et al Striato-capsular hemorrhage. Brain 2000;123:1850-1862
Caplan LR. Caplan's Stroke a clinical approach, 3rd ed, Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, 2000
Caplan LR, Hollander J. The effective clinical neurologist, Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, 2001
Caplan LR. Posterior Circulation Disease: clinical findings, diagnosis, and management. Blackwell Science, Boston, 1996
Caplan LR, Hurst JW, Chimowitz, M. Clinical neurocardiology, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999

External Recognition:

Willis Lecture, American Heart Association
Distinguished Acheivement Award, American heart Association
Tufts University School of Medicine, Distinguished Faculty Award
Honorary member Australian, Hong Kong, and German Neurological Associations
Chair Stroke Council American heart Association
Editorial Board of > 20 Medical Journals

Major Collaborative Activities:

Boiston Stroke Society
Studies of Intracerebral hemorrhage with BU faculty

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