34 Facts About Arthur Caplan

Arthur Caplan was successfully treated at Children's Hospital in Boston and went on to play sports at Framingham North High School.

Arthur Caplan did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University, where he majored in philosophy.

Arthur Caplan worked with Nagel as a teaching assistant and was the final graduate student of Nagel's career.

In 1977, Arthur Caplan met Daniel Callahan, a philosopher who co-founded The Hastings Center with psychiatrist Willard Gaylin.

In 1977, Arthur Caplan joined The Hastings Center, first as a junior research assistant and then as a post-doctoral fellow.

Arthur Caplan spent the next 10 years at the center, serving as the associate director from 1985 to 1987.

Arthur Caplan became involved in the ethics of human and animal experimentation and new medical technologies, applying philosophy in public discourse and speaking on public policy issues.

In 1987, Arthur Caplan moved to the University of Minnesota, where he became a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Surgery and the first director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Arthur Caplan wrote about bioethics in relation to the Holocaust.

In May 1994, Arthur Caplan went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Arthur Caplan founded the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medical Ethics and had professorial appointments in a variety of departments including Medicine and Philosophy.

In 2009, Arthur Caplan helped develop the first flu vaccine mandate at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and, later, New York state's policy to require health care workers to "vaccinate or mask".

In 2012, Arthur Caplan came to New York University's School of Medicine as the Drs.

Arthur Caplan has spoken and written extensively on vaccine-related topics, including the ethics of placebo-controlled trials during the pandemic, what is owed to vaccine trial participants after a vaccine has been authorized, COVID-19 vaccination of transplant candidates, and more specialized topics such understanding attitudes toward the disease and vaccines among a Haredi-Orthodox Jewish community.

Arthur Caplan was one of the more vocal proponents of controversial challenge studies for SARS-CoV2 vaccines.

Arthur Caplan has been criticized by some classical philosophers for his "hands-on philosophy", and by some colleagues for his enthusiastic engagement with the media.

In 2021, Arthur Caplan published a commentary on a medical news website titled "It's Okay for Docs to Refuse to Treat Unvaccinated Patients".

In 2022, Arthur Caplan advocated that pharmaceutical companies should stop doing business in Russia, an action that was criticized as advocating for a war crime.

Arthur Caplan is the author and editor of more than 35 books and more than 860 papers in peer-reviewed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics, and health policy.

Arthur Caplan is a frequent guest and commentator on various other media outlets, discussing public health issues like obesity, Ebola virus disease, Zika virus, vaccination, and COVID-19.

Arthur Caplan has called for a new international convention on criminal organ trafficking.

Arthur Caplan has spoken out on international issues such as organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Arthur Caplan instituted a boycott by leading medical journals of papers about transplantation coming from China.

Arthur Caplan has served on a number of national committees, including as chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group and chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability.

Arthur Caplan was a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses and the special advisory panel to the National Institute of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.

Arthur Caplan is an adviser to DARPA on synthetic biology and has addressed the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

Arthur Caplan has served on the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy.

Arthur Caplan has consulted with many corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and consumer organizations.

Arthur Caplan is on the board of trustees of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Arthur Caplan has been elected as a fellow of The Hastings Center, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the New York Academy of Medicine, and an honorary fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine.

Arthur Caplan was named a person of the Year in 2001 by USA Today.

Arthur Caplan holds eight honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools.

Arthur Caplan received the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association in 1999, the John P McGovern Award Lectureship from the Medical Library Association in 2007, and the Patricia Price Browne Prize in Biomedical Ethics in 2011.

In December 2019, CompAC, which Arthur Caplan founded and chairs, received the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA's Innovation Award.