Lawrence Kaplan, DO
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

I am the Director of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service located at the Parnassus campus. In that role I oversee the clinical and administrative operations of the service. Clinical activities include performing consultations to multiple hospital medical and surgical services at Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses and the emergency room at the Parnassus campus.

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In addition, I serve as a clinical educator for trainees, including medical students, residents and fellows.

Other clinical activities include clinical director of the Department of Psycho-oncology Psychiatry in UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, which includes collaborating and consulting with oncologists of all sub-specialties, pain and palliative care physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, psychologists and social workers, with a focus on assessment and recommendations for patients with pre-morbid mental health disorders, neuropsychiatric side effects related to a specific cancer diagnosis and/or treatment effects, cancer survivorship and end-of-life related issues. Other activities include performing mental health assessments for patients referred under the End-of-Life Option Act.

Education & Training

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• FACLP Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School 06/2015
• Psychosocial Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School 06/2015
• ABPN Board Certified General Psychiatry Residency Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Baylor College of Medicine 06/2014

Publications (4)

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• Association of mental health diagnosis with race and all-cause mortality after a cancer diagnosis: Large-scale analysis of electronic health record data.
  Cancer 2021 Chen WC, Boreta L, Braunstein SE, Rabow MW, Kaplan LE, Tenenbaum JD, Morin O, Park CC, Hong JC
• Geriatric Psychiatry- A Case-Based Textbook; Editors: Hategan, A., Bourgeois, J.A., Hirsch, C., Giroux, C
  Palliative Care for Geriatric Psychiatric Patients with Life-Limiting Illness 2018 Leung, Margaret W., MD, MPH; Lawrence E. Kaplan, DO, FACLP; James A. Bourgeois, MD
• Physician-Assisted Death Psychiatric Assessment: A Standardized Protocol to Conform to the California End of Life Option Act.
  Psychosomatics 2018 Bourgeois JA, Mariano MT, Wilkins JM, Brendel RW, Kaplan L, Ganzini L
• Vitamin D 1alpha-hydroxylase gene mutations in patients with 1alpha-hydroxylase deficiency.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2007 Kim CJ, Kaplan LE, Perwad F, Huang N, Sharma A, Choi Y, Miller WL, Portale AA