Dr. Benjamin Caplan, MD – Board-Certified Family Physician, Healthtech Founder & Clinical Software Architect

Dr. Benjamin Caplan

Welcome!

I’m Dr. Benjamin Caplan—a board-certified Family Medicine physician, healthtech founder, and clinical software architect. For more than two decades, I’ve worked at the intersection of direct patient care, clinical decision support software, and healthcare innovation.

My clinical foundation spans multi-state care delivery, having guided more than 350,000 patient evaluations across clinical networks and digital health platforms. My practice emphasizes complex chronic illness, adult and pediatric care, and especially older adult care, where thoughtful clinical guidance and non-traditional therapeutic options often provide safer, more empowering alternatives to polypharmacy and clinical inertia.

Current Roles & Focus Areas

I divide my clinical and technical work across several active ventures and advisory initiatives:

CED Clinic – Founder & Chief Medical Officer. A premier clinical practice serving thousands of complex patients with evidence-grounded therapeutic consultations and personalized clinical oversight.
EO Care, Inc. – Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer. A digital health platform delivering clinician-guided, evidence-informed care pathways and digital decision support for cannabis-based therapeutics.
Clinical Software & AI Systems Advisory – Fractional CMO and systems architect advising digital health startups, healthtech founders, and investment teams on translating complex clinical judgment into resilient software architecture, safe clinical workflows, and defensible AI systems.
The Commonwealth Project – A Medicare-focused initiative working to expand safe, clinician-supervised therapeutic access and data collection for older adult populations.
The CED Foundation – A non-profit initiative maintaining one of the world’s largest curated, open-access digital repositories of cannabinoid research and clinical evidence.

As a Clinical Investigator and systems builder, I’ve led clinical trials, engineered data collection architectures, and contributed to research on therapeutic outcomes across chronic pain, sleep disorders, neurological conditions, anxiety, and geriatric polypharmacy.

Author, Educator, Policy Advisor

I’m the author of The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook (Penguin Random House / BenBella Books), an internationally recognized clinical guide to safe, evidence-informed cannabis therapy. My clinical perspectives have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, and I have served as an Invited Guest Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where I delivered early lectures on the clinical and market dynamics of cannabis medicine and helped introduce the inaugural Cannabis Business Conference.

I speak regularly with academic audiences, legal professionals, and health policymakers to bring clinical clarity to healthcare reform, modernize patient access across Medicare populations, and educate clinicians on the physiological role of the endocannabinoid system.

The Clinician-Builder Advantage: Software & Digital Innovation

Most healthcare software is designed at a distance from actual clinical practice—passing through layers of non-clinical product teams and specifications where essential nuances of patient care are frequently compromised. As a practicing physician who builds software directly, I take a clinician-first approach to technical systems:

De Novo Clinical Tools – Designing and developing focused, clinician-operated tools including interaction screening engines, dosage titration calculators, and real-time scientific telemetry trackers.
Evidence-Grounded Retrieval Systems – Engineering research and literature discovery tools that tie computational outputs directly to verifiable, peer-reviewed medical publications.
Venture Engineering Track Record – Earlier in my entrepreneurial career, I served as Chief Medical Officer helping build MedEval Corp / Canna Care Docs across multi-state clinical operations, and co-founded solo sciences (an anti-counterfeiting and product authentication technology platform acquired by Akerna, Inc.).

My Clinical Blog – Where I Write, Share, and Learn

While I publish across academic and industry channels, the CED Clinic blog is where I share regular clinical observations, dissect newly published research, and communicate directly with patients and providers:

Translating complex clinical studies into practical patient guidance
Sharing approachable culinary medicine guides and cannabinoid preparation basics
Publishing accessible visual explainers that make clinical science understandable
Hosting conversations and interviews via Green Table Talk with patients and clinicians on the evolving frontier of medical therapy

Education & Training

M.D. – Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency – Family Medicine, Boston Medical Center
B.A. – Williams College

I’ve held clinical affiliations and collaborative relationships with Beth Israel Lahey Health Network, Boston Medical Center, and the International Consortium for Brain Mapping at UCLA.

Executive Advisory & Collaboration

I regularly collaborate with healthtech founders, digital health executive teams, venture investors, and research institutions seeking experienced clinical judgment paired with direct software architecture capability.

📄 Read the Executive Perspective Brief: The Clinician-Builder Advantage for an in-depth review of my clinical software philosophy and advisory focus.

📬 Join my newsletter, Doctor Approved — sharing evidence-grounded insights on clinical care, research updates, and health innovation.

🤝 For advisory consultations, speaking engagements, or institutional partnerships, explore my Healthtech CMO Advisory page or Work With Dr. Caplan.