Lewis Jay Kaplan, MD
Trauma Surgery, General Surgery
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Perelman
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Section Chief, Surgical Critical Care Corporal Michael J Crescenz VA Medical Center
- Director, Surgical ICU, Corporal Michael J Crescenz VA Medical Center
- Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Veteran's Administration Medical Center
My education and training
- Medical School: University Of Medicine & Dentistry Of New Jersey - Piscataway
- Residency: Medical College of Pennsylvania
- Fellowship: UPMC Presbyterian
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Qualifications and experience
- Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
- Surgery, 1996
- American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (Fellow), National
- American College of Chest Physicians (Fellow), National
- American College of Surgeons (Fellow), National
- American College of Surgeons, Metro Chapter, Local
- Association for Surgical Education, National
- Association of VA Surgeons, National
- Drinker Critical Care Society, National
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, National
- National Tactical Officers Association, National
- New England Surgical Society (Elected Member), Local
- Pennsylvania Society of Critical Care Medicine, Local
- Society of Critical Care Medicine, National
- Society of Critical Care Medicine Northeast Regional Chapter, Local
- Society of University Surgeons (Fellow), National
- Surgical Infection Society, National
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Moore S, Weiss B, Pascual JL, Kaplan LJ Management of acute respiratory failure in the patient with sepsis or septic shock , Surgical Infections (Larchmont): 2018 (Epub)
Chreiman KM, Dumas RP, Seamon MJ, Kim PK, Reilly PM, Kaplan LJ, Christie JD, Holena DN The IOs have it: A prospective observational study of vascular access success rates in patients in extremis using video review , Journal of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery: 2018 (Epub)
MacKay EJ, Stubna MD, Holena DN, Reilly PM, Seamon MJ, Smith BP, Kaplan LJ, Cannon JW In response , Anesthesia & Analgesia, 126(2): 2018,728-729
Martin N, Pascual JL, Crowe D, Toevs C, Cereda MF, Mikkelsen M, Kaplan LJ Comfort at the crossroads: Service, therapy and emotional support animals in the ICU and at the end-of-life , Journal of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery: 2018
Martin ND, Ramaswamy T, Moin E, Marks JA, Collins T, O’Connor N, Holena D, Pascual J, Reilly PM, Kaplan LJ The critical illness mortality inflection point during prolonged Surgical ICU length of stay , Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: 2018
Fernandez-Moure J, Cannon J, Kaplan LJ Cardiovascular failure , Clinical Scenarios in Surgery, 2nd Edition: 2018
Nomellini V, Kaplan LJ, Sims CA, Caldwell CC Chronic critical illness and persistent inflammation: What can we learn from the elderly, injured, septic, and malnourished? , Shock: 2017 (Epub)
Nunn AM, Hatchimonji JS, Holena DN, Seamon MJ, Smith BP, Kaplan LJ, Martin ND, Reilly PM, Schwab CW, Pascual JL Boarding ICU patients: Are our rounding practices subpar? , American Journal of Surgery: 2017 (Epub)
Kaplan LJ Ask the doc: How do I know when I should give up riding motorcycles? , Common Tread: 2017
Kaplan, LJ Book review: Hurt by Catherine Musemeche , Critical Care Medicine, 45(3): 2017,e345