Alan Kaplan

Family Physician practicing in York Region, Ontario, Canada.

Medical director of LHIN Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinics

Alan is a practicing family physician and the Medical director of LHIN Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinics in Ontario, Canada. Alan chairs the Family Physician Airways Group of Canada (www.fpagc.com) and is also an Honorary Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine of the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore.

Alan’s other positions include Co-Chair of the Health Quality Ontario COPD Community Management standards committee, Member of the Health Quality Ontario Asthma community management standards committee, Vice President Respiratory Effectiveness Group and Senate member of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group

Alan is also a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, while being a Member of the Physician Advisory Panel of the Medical Post, the Medical Advisory Committee of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association of Canada and a Member of Section of Allergy and Respiratory Therapeutics, Health Canada. Alan has authored 136 Peer Reviewed Articles and 104 Conference Abstracts.