Robert Kaplan Pty Limited
The Prophet of Psychiatry
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- Robert M Kaplan
- Robert Kaplan Pty Limited
- Paperback
- 9780992457914
- 8 X 5 X 0.8 inches
- 0.86 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Historical
- English
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Author Bio
Robert M. Kaplan is a Distinguished Research Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Fielding School. He has served as Chief Science Officer at the US Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health, where he led the behavioral and social sciences programs.
Before he served in government, he led the UCLA/RAND AHRQ health services training program and the UCLA/RAND CDC Prevention Research Center. He was Chair of the Department of Health Services (now HPM) from 2004 to 2009. From 1997 to 2004 he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, at the University of California, San Diego. He is a past President of several organizations, including the American Psychological Association Division of Health Psychology, Section J of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific), the International Society for Quality of Life Research, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Kaplan is a former Editor-in-Chief of Health Psychology and of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
His 20 books and over 565 articles or chapters have been cited more than 57,000 times. Google Scholar includes him in the list of the most highly cited authors in all areas of science (defined as H-Index > 100). Kaplan was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) in 2005. In addition to UCLA, he is a faculty member at the Stanford School of Medicine Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC).
Source: University of California - Fielding of School of Public Health
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