Dr. Adam Kaplin graduated magna cum laude from Yale University before receiving his medical degree and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he was a Medical Science Training Program awardee. He went on to complete an internship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and a residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he served as the chief resident of psychiatry.

Now an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Kaplin focuses on the psychiatric complications of neurological diseases. He researches the immune-mediated mechanisms of depression and cognitive impairment in transverse myelitis, multiple sclerosis and related autoimmune neurologic disorders, and the role of cytokines in these processes.

Dr. Kaplin is on the board of medical advisors to the Transverse Myelitis Association (TMA) and the Montel Williams MS Foundation.

Dr. Kaplin currently sees patients in the Meyer Building of The Johns Hopkins Hospital located in Baltimore on Fridays.

Certifications:

• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology