Louis R. Caplan is a senior member of the Division of Cerebrovascular Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. He is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and the founder of the Harvard Stroke Registry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Caplan is the author or editor of 37 books and more than 600 articles in medical journals.
Caplan was born in Baltimore, Maryland December 31, 1936. His father worked in a drugstore and neither his parents went to college. Caplan graduated from the A course at Baltimore City College High School and then attended Williams College in Williamstown Massachusetts. There he was elected as a college junior to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude in 1958. Although a pre-med student he majored in history and was the recipient of the Williams College history prize. Caplan then attended the University of Maryland College of Physicians and Surgeons and graduated in 1962 summa cum laude and was the valedictorian the class.
Caplan is a senior member of the Division of Cerebrovascular Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. He is a member of many professional societies, serving as an officer on committees for the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Neurological Association. He has served as the Chair of both the Boston Society of Neurology and the Chicago Neurological Society.
Stroke (American Academy of Neurology), by Louis R. Caplan, October 1, 2005
Striking Back at Stroke: A Doctor-Patient Journal, by Cleo Hutton and M.D., Louis R. Caplan, May 1, 2003
Stroke Syndromes, by Julien Bogousslavsky and Louis R. Caplan
Stroke: A Clinical Approach, by Louis R. Caplan, March 1993
Brain Embolism (Neurological Disease and Therapy), by Louis R. Caplan and Warren J. Manning, July 11, 2006
Cerebrovascular Disease, by H. Hunt Batjer, Louis R. Caplan, Lars Friberg, and Ralph G., Jr. Greenlee January, 1997
American Heart Association: Family Guide to Stroke, Treatment, Recovery, and Prevention, by Louis R. Caplan, Mark L. Dyken, and Donald Easton Paperback, 1994
Primer on Cerebrovascular Diseases, by M.A. Welch, Louis R. Caplan, Donald J. Reis, and Bo K. Siesjo, April 25, 1997
Brain-Stem Localization and Function, by Louis R. Caplan, H. Ch Hopf, R. Besser, and Gunter Kramer, October 1993
Cerebral Small Artery Disease (Advances in Neurology), by Patrick M. Pullicino, Louis R. Caplan, and Marc Hommel, July 1993
Cerebrovascular Diseases: Nineteenth Princeton Stroke Conference (Princeton Research Conference on Cerebrovascular Diseases//Cerebrovascular Diseases, by Princeton Stroke Conference, Michael A. Moskowitz, and Louis R. Caplan