Samantha Kaplan, MD

Research Interests

Global public health, climate change, epidemiology, HIV, TB, vector-borne diseases, tropical medicine

Publications

• Carrasco-Escobar G, Carcamo PM, Kaplan SR, Quispe JM, McCord GC, Benmarhnia T (2025) Spatiotemporal co- distribution and time lagged cross correlation of malaria and dengue in Loreto, Peru. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(12): e0005598. https:// doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0005598
• Rassi Jr A, Grimshaw A, Sarwal A, Sah R, Shah S, Agudelo Higuita NI, Mahamed Rassi F, Francesco Corbisiero M, Kyllo HM, Stellern J, Kaplan S, Marcos LA, Ramirez-Garcia EA, Casapia M, Hotez P, Bottazzi ME, Patel S, Franco-Paredes C, Marin-Neto JA, Henao-Martinez AF. Impact of antiparasitic therapy on cardiovascular outcomes in chronic Chagas disease. A systematic review and meta-analysis. eClinicalMedicine 2025; 79: 102972. DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102972
• Ruchman SG, Fitzgerald B, Roda G, Van Ochten N, Castillo AY, Kaplan SR. A 52-Year-Old Man with a Chronic Nasal Wound. NEJM Evid 2024; 3(6). DOI: 10.1056/EVIDmr2400089
• Kaplan SR, Rajagopal A, Cachay ER, Deiss R. A case of disseminated coccidioidomycosis immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in a patient with HIV/AIDS. IDCases. 2023 Sep 9:e01896. PubMed PMID: 37727860
• Kaplan SR, Rajagopal A, Cachay ER, Deiss R. A Case of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis and Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) in a patient with HIV/AIDS. ID Cases. 2023;34: e01896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01896
• Kaplan SR, Escudero JN, Mecha J, Richardson BA, Maleche-Obimbo E, Matemo D, Kinuthia J, John-Stewart GC, LaCourse SM. Interferon Gamma Release Assay and Tuberculin Skin Test Performance in Pregnant Women Living With and Without HIV. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2022 Jan 1;89(1):98-107. PubMed PMID: 34629414
• Kaplan S, Nteso KS, Ford N, Boulle A, Meintjes G. Loss to follow-up from antiretroviral therapy clinics: A systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies in South Africa from 2011 to 2015. South Afr J HIV Med. 2019;20(1):984. PubMed PMID: 31956435
• Kaplan SR, Topal J, Sosa L, Malinis M, Huttner A, Malhotra A, Friedland G. A patient with central nervous system tuberculomas and a history of disseminated multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis. 2018 Jan;10:9-16. PubMed PMID: 31720380
• Kaplan SR, Oosthuizen C, Stinson K, Little F, Euvrard J, Schomaker M, Osler M, Hilderbrand K, Boulle A, Meintjes G. Contemporary disengagement from antiretroviral therapy in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A cohort study. PLoS Med. 2017 Nov;14(11):e1002407. PubMed PMID: 29112692

Professional Memberships

• IDSA, member

Practice Locations

UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
12605 E. 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0000

Hospital Affiliation

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Internal Medicine, Board Certification (2020, 2020)
• Infectious Disease (2023)

Conditions & Treatments

• Infections
• Infections - Bacterial Infections
• Infections - Fungal Infections
• Infections - Influenza
• Infections - Pneumonia
• Infections - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Infections - Viral Infections