Email

holland.kaplan@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine
Section of General Internal Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Assistant Professor

Department of Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy - Clinical
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Education

MD from Baylor College of Medicine

06/2017 - Houston, United States

Medical ethics

BA from Texas A&M University

05/2013 - College Station, Texas, United States

Philosophy, Biological Sciences

Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2023 - Houston, Texas, United States

Clinical Ethics

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2019 - Houston, Texas

Internal Medicine

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2021 - Houston, Texas, United States

Internal Medicine Chief Residency

Professional Interests

• Academic hospital medicine
• Medical education
• Clinical ethics
• Medical decision-making
• Medicine after the Holocaust
• Ethical challenges in care for the underserved

Websites

Selected Publications

• Kaplan, HM, Birnbaum, JF, Kulkarni, PA. " Pursuit of “endpoint diagnoses” as a cognitive forcing strategy to avoid premature diagnostic closure " Diagnosis. 2022 Aug 8;
  Pubmed PMID: 35942949.
• Kaplan, HM, Rana, R, Kulkarni, PA. " Implementation of a Night-Float Curriculum: Impact on Intern Confidence over Time " Southern Medical Journal. 2022 Aug ; 115 (8)
  Pubmed PMID: 35922052.
• Blumenthal-Barby, JB, Lang, B, Dorfman, N, Kaplan, HM, Hooper, WB, Kostick-Quenet, K. " Research on the Clinical Translation of Health Care Machine Learning: Ethicists’ Experiences on Lessons Learned " The American Journal of Bioethics. 2022 May ; 22 (5) : 1-3.
  Pubmed PMID: 35475968.
• Kaplan, HM, Schoen, L, Blumenthal-Barby, J, Kostick-Quenet, K, Ubel, P, Dang, B. " LVAD patients’ attitudes and beliefs towards COVID-19 vaccination and willingness to seek care during the pandemic. " The Permanente Journal. 2022 Sep ;
• Kaplan, HM. " The Nazi Analogy Muddles Our Thinking About Physician Aid-in-Dying in the US " American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. 2021 ; 23 (1) : E78-81.
  Pubmed PMID: 33554854.
• Oakman, N, Bui, C, Lim, J, Kaplan, HM, Sherman, SV. " When Patients Die: Patient Memorials & Group Reflection in an Internal Medicine Residency Program " Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 2021 ; 34 (1) : 56-58.
  Pubmed PMID: 33456146.
• Kaplan, HM, Verma, DM, Sargsyan, Z. " What Traditional Lectures Can Learn from Audio Podcasts " Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2020 ; 12 (3) : 250-253.
  Pubmed PMID: 32595838.
• Chang, YK, Kaplan, HM, Geng, Y, Mo, L, Philip, J, Collins, A, Allen, LA, McClung, JA, Denvir, MA, Hui, D. " Referral Criteria to Palliative Care for Patients with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review " Circulation: Heart Failure. 2020 Sep 9; 13 (9)
  Pubmed PMID: 32900233.
• Blumenthal-Barby JS, Kostick KM, Delgado ED, Volk RJ, Kaplan HM, Wilhelms BA, McCurdy SA, Estep JD, Loebe M, Bruce CR. " Assessment of Patients’ and Caregivers’ Informational and Decisional Needs for Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement: Implications for Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making " Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2015 ; 34 (9) : 1182-1189.
  Pubmed PMID: 26087668.
• Kaplan, HM. " The Tincture of the Doctor's Time " Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. 2023 Mar ; 13 (1) : 12-14.
• Holland Kaplan, Laura Guidry-Grimes, Parker Crutchfield, Adira Hulkower, Claire Horner, Joey Elizabeth Burke, Savitri Fedson. " An Open Discussion of the Impact of OpenNotes on Clinical Ethics: A Justification for Harm-Based Exclusions from Clinical Ethics Documentation " Journal of Clinical Ethics. 2022 Dec ; 33 (4) : 303-313.
  Pubmed PMID: 36548234.
• Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Holland Kaplan. " "But my mom still blinks when I talk to her." Understanding the concept of social death to avoid bias and improve goals-of-care discussions at the end of life " J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Jul 31;
  Pubmed PMID: 37525563.
• Holland Kaplan, Marc Robinson, Astrid Grouls. " Voices Behind Bars: Ethical, Legal, and Practical Considerations for Surrogates Who Are Incarcerated " Ann Intern Med. 2023 ; 25 (12) : 1261-1263.
  Pubmed PMID: 37603864.
• Emma Cooke, Holland Kaplan. " How Should Technology-Dependent Patients’ Care Be Managed Collaboratively to Avoid Turfing? " AMA J Ethics. 2023 Dec 1; 25 (12) : E878-884.
  Pubmed PMID: 38085990.
• Kostick-Quenet, K, Lang, B, Dorfman, N, Estep, J, Mehra, M, Bhimaraj, A, Civitello, A, Jorde, U, Trachtenberg, B, Uriel, N, Kaplan, H, Gilmore-Szott, E, Volk, R, Kassi, M, Blumenthal-Barby, JS. " Patients’ and physicians’ beliefs and attitudes towards integrating personalized risk estimates into patient education about left ventricular assist device therapy " Patient Educ Counseling. 2024 May ; 122
  Pubmed PMID: 38290171.
• Jamison, Trevor, Zaven Sargsyan, Uma Ayyala, Stephanie Sherman, and Holland Kaplan. " A Mini Chalk Talk Workshop for Fourth-Year Medical Students: Facilitating the Transition From Student to Resident Educator " MedEdPORTAL. 2024 Jun 25;
• Holland Kaplan, Kristin Kostick-Quenet, Benjamin Lang, Robert J Volk, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby. " Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study " 2024 Sep ; 11 (30)
  Pubmed PMID: 39288559.
• Ryan Ward, Holland Kaplan. " Dual-Physician Decision-Making for Unrepresented Patients: Legal and Ethical Obligations for the Second Nontreating Physician " J Clin Ethics. 2025 Jun ; 36 (2)
  Pubmed PMID: 40397980.
• Holland Kaplan, Anna Cabot, Peter Ubel. " Health Care in an Evolving Immigration Landscape — Providing Care while Upholding the Law " N Engl J Med. 2025 Jun 5; 392 (21)
  Pubmed PMID: 40305691.

Show 15 more publications

Memberships

American Society of Bioethics and Humanities

(07/2021)

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society

(05/2020)

National Gold Humanism Honor Society

(05/2017)

Languages

Dutch