Email

holland.kaplan@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine
Section of General Internal Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Ben Taub General Hospital

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.

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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