Caplan CannabisDr. Benjamin Caplan, MD Get the book

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Research collaboration with Dr. Caplan

Cannabis medicine needs better evidence, and real-world practice is where many of the right questions surface first. Dr. Caplan works with researchers, clinicians and institutions to turn clinical experience into rigorous, publishable knowledge.

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Focus areas

Where his work is concentrated

Real-world outcomes

How cannabinoid care performs in everyday practice, across conditions, products and patient groups.

Older adults and polypharmacy

Care models for aging patients who take many medicines, a current focus of The Commonwealth Project.

Endocannabinoid-informed care

Care pathways and payer models, including work on Medicare innovation initiatives.

Formulation and delivery

How product type, route and formulation change the effect, a theme throughout the Handbook.

Evidence tools for clinicians

A curated research library and an evidence-based research assistant that answers from the literature.

Underserved populations

Data-driven care models for patients who have had the least access to informed cannabis care.

What he brings

Clinical depth, research experience

  • Longitudinal care of more than 25,000 patients at CED Clinic, and clinical guidance for more than 350,000 more
  • Principal investigator at CED Clinic and CED Foundation since 2016
  • Sub-investigator on randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials in irritable bowel syndrome and migraine
  • Research beginnings at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center on fMRI studies
  • Faculty experience as assistant professor at Tufts and Boston University, and lectures on medical cannabis at Harvard Business School
  • A large curated digital library of cannabis literature, and the CED Research Assistant

Ways to work together

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Study design

Clinical input on questions, endpoints and feasibility for cannabinoid studies.

Outcomes partnerships

Collaborative analyses of real-world care, with ethics review and patient privacy protections.

Education

Grand rounds, lectures and curricula on endocannabinoid-informed care.

Expert commentary

Clinical perspective for journalists, reviewers and policy work.

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Selected work

Publications and writing