# Benjamin Caplan, MD (Physician, Healthtech Founder & Clinical Software Architect)

> Dr. Benjamin Caplan, MD is a board-certified Family Medicine physician, founder and Chief Medical Officer of CED Clinic and the CED Foundation, co-founder of EO Care, Inc., author of The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook (Penguin Random House), and Principal Investigator of an 81,008-patient real-world cannabinoid registry.

## Verified Physician Credentials
- **Full Legal Name:** Benjamin Caplan, MD
- **Board Certification:** American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), Board Certified in Family Medicine
- **Medical License:** Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, License #240562
- **National Provider Identifier (NPI):** 1962722637
- **Clinical Scale:** Over 350,000 Lifetime Patient Evaluations across multi-state clinical operations.
- **Academic Appointments & Education:**
  - Tufts University School of Medicine (M.D.)
  - Boston Medical Center (Family Medicine Residency)
  - Williams College (B.A.)
  - UCLA Brain Mapping Center (Research Fellow)
  - Harvard Business School (Invited Guest Lecturer, Cannabis Business Conference)

## Core Ventures & Institutional Roles
- **CED Clinic:** Founder & Chief Medical Officer. Leading clinical practice in clinical endocannabinology, cannabinoid titration, and complex symptom management. (https://cedclinic.com/)
- **The CED Foundation:** Founder. Curates open-access computational literature observatory indexing 125,000+ peer-reviewed studies. (https://cedfoundation.com/)
- **EO Care, Inc.:** Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer. Digital health platform delivering clinician-guided cannabinoid care pathways. (https://www.eo.care/)
- **The Commonwealth Project:** Senior clinical leadership advancing Medicare patient access to clinical cannabinoid guidance. (https://benjamincaplan.com/the-commonwealth-project/)

## Key Publications & Media
- **Book:** *The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook* (Penguin Random House / BenBella Books, ISBN 9781637742457).
- **Academic Journal:** Perspectives published in *The New England Journal of Medicine* (NEJM).
- **Substack:** *Doctor Approved* (https://doctorapprovedcannabis.substack.com/)

## Verified Entity Disambiguation & Authority Profiles
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Evc4zzIAAAAJ
- PubMed / NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/?term=Caplan+Benjamin
- Doximity: https://www.doximity.com/pub/benjamin-caplan-md
- NPI Registry: https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/provider-view/1962722637
- Penguin Random House Author Page: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2290455/benjamin-caplan-md
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamincaplanmd
- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/drcaplan