Liron Caplan, MD, PhD

Professional Titles

• Section Head, Rheumatology, Rocky Mtn VAMC

Recognitions

• Golden Stethescope Award-Best Physical Exam Preceptor, Foundations in Doctoring Course (2011)
  
• ACR Early Career Investigator Delegate, ACR/EULAR International Academic Rheumatology Exchange (2013)
• Top Doctors, Rheumatology, 5280 Magazine (2021)

Publications

• Caplan L, Russell AS. Wolfe F. Steroids for rheumatoid arthritis: the honeymoon revisited (once again). [Editorial]. J Rheum. 2005; 32(10):1863-1865.
• Wolfe F, Caplan L, Michaud K. Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Risk of Hospitalization for Pneumonia: Associations with Prednisone, Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs and Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy. Arthritis Rheum. 2006; 54(2):628-634.
• Caplan L. West S. Woman with morning stiffness and tender, swollen joints (Rheumatoid Arthritis). In: Scott MG, Gronowski AM, Eby CS, editors. Tietz’s Applied Laboratory Medicine. 2nd edition. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2006 (pending).
• Caplan L. West S. Woman with a rash and lower extremity pain (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus). In: Scott MG, Gronowski AM, Eby CS, editors. Tietz’s Applied Laboratory Medicine. 2nd edition. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2006 (pending).
• Wolfe F, Caplan L, Michaud K. Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment and the Risk of Severe Interstitial Lung Disease, Scand J Rheum (Accepted for publication), 2007.
• Caplan L, Wolfe F, Russell, Michaud K. Prednisone use in rheumatoid arthritis: Prevalence, predictors, correlates and outcomes. J Rheum (Accepted for publication), 2007.
• Caplan L, Hoffecker L, Prochazka AV. Ethics in the rheumatology literature: a systematic review. Arthritis Rheum [Arthritis Care and Research]
• Caplan L, Saag KG. Glucocorticoids and the Risk of Osteoporosis. Expert Opin. Drug Saf. 2009; 8 (1):33-47.
• Caplan L, Wolfe F, Michaud K, Quinzanos I, Hirsh JM. Health literacy is strongly associated with functional status among rheumatoid arthritis patients: A cross-sectional study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2013 Sep 10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24023051
• Caplan L, Clegg DO, Inman RD. Ankylosing spondylitis clinical registries: principles, practices and possibilities. Am J Med Sci. 2013 Jun;345(6):437-9. PubMed PMID: 23841118
• Michaud K, Mikuls TR, Call SE, Reimold AM, Hooker R, Kerr GS, Richards JS, Caplan L, Cannon GW. Poor to modest agreement between rheumatoid arthritis response measures in clinical practice. Clin Exp Rheumatol, 2009 (accepted).
• McDonald JR, Zeringue AL, Caplan L, Ranganathan P, Xian H, Burroughs TE, Fraser VJ, Cunningham F, Eisen SA. Herpes zoster risk and risk factors in a national cohort of veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Infect Dis 2009 (accepted).
• Davis LA, Cannon GW, Pointer LF, Haverhals LM, Wolff RK, Mikuls TR, Reimold AM, Kerr GS, Richards JS, Johnson DS, Valuck R, Prochazka A, Caplan L. Cardiovascular events are not associated with MTHFR polymorphisms, but are associated with methotrexate use and traditional risk factors in US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol. 2013 Jun;40(6):809-17. PubMed PMID: 23547211
• Caplan L, Hoffecker L, Prochazka AV. Absence of ethical discourse in the rheumatology literature: comment on the article by Caplan et al [Arthritis Care and Research], 2008; 59(12):1835-36.
• Lin CT, McKenzie M, Pell J, Caplan L. Health care provider satisfaction with a new electronic progress note format: SOAP vs APSO format. JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Jan 28;173(2):160-2. PubMed PMID: 23403939
• Caplan L, Pittman CB, Zeringue A, Scherrer JF, Cunningham FE, Eisen SA, McDonald JR. Musculoskeletal pain among patients on bisphosphonates: a possible adverse drug reaction. [Poster presentation] American College of Rheumatology Annual Research Workshop. Itsaca, IL. Aug.23, 2008.
• Mikuls TR, Padala PR, Sayles HR, Yu F, Michaud K, Caplan L, Kerr GS, Reimold A, Cannon GW, Richards JS, Lazaro D, Thiele GM, Boscarino JA. Prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder and disease activity outcomes in US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2013 Feb;65(2):227-34. PubMed PMID: 22740431
• Cannon GW, Michaud KD, Call SE, Reimold AM, Hooker R, Kerr GS, Richards JS, Caplan L, Johnson DS, Mikuls TE. Discrepancies in Rheumatoid Arthritis Response Measures In Clinical Practice: Comparison of Difference in EULAR, ACR20, and Real Time Assessment of Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RADARA). American College of Rheumatology 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 24-29, 2008.
• Caplan L, Davis LA, Bright CM, Kerr GS, Lazaro DM, Khan NA, Richards JS, Johnson DS, Cannon GW, Reimold AM, Mikuls TR. Body mass index and the rheumatoid arthritis swollen joint count: an observational study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2013 Jan;65(1):101-6. PubMed PMID: 22623288
• Deodhar A, Reveille JD, van den Bosch F, Braun J, Burgos-Vargas R, Caplan L, Clegg DO, Colbert RA, Gensler LS, van der Heijde D, van der Horst-Bruinsma IE, Inman RD, Maksymowych WP, Mease PJ, Raychaudhuri S, Reimold A, Rudwaleit M, Sieper J, Weisman MH, Landewé RB. The concept of axial spondyloarthritis: joint statement of the spondyloarthritis research and treatment network and the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society in response to the US Food and Drug Administration's comments and concerns. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2014 Oct;66(10):2649-56. PubMed PMID: 25154344
• Quinzanos I, Luong PT, Bobba S, Richards JS, Majithia V, Davis LA, Caplan L. Validation of disease activity and functional status questionnaires in spondyloarthritis. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2015 Feb 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25664820
• Cannon GW, DuVall SL, Haroldsen CL, Caplan L, Curtis JR, Michaud K, Mikuls TR, Reimold A, Collier DH, Harrison DJ, Joseph GJ, Sauer BC. Persistence and dose escalation of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors in US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol. 2014 Oct;41(10):1935-43. PubMed PMID: 25128516
• Dischinger HR, Cheng E, Davis LA, Caplan L. Practices and preferences for detecting chronic medication toxicity: a pilot cross-sectional survey of health care providers focusing on decision support systems. J Eval Clin Pract. 2014 Dec;20(6):1086-9. PubMed PMID: 24903001
• Mikuls TR, Michaud K, Thiele GM, O’Dell JR, Cannella AC, Reimold A, Hooker R, Caplan L, Johnson D, Cannon GW, Kerr G, Richards JS. The association of cigarette smoking with disease expression in U.S. veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. American College of Rheumatology 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 24-29, 2008.
• Kerr G, Aujero M, Richards J, Sayles H, Davis L, Cannon G, Caplan L, Michaud K, Mikuls T. Associations of hydroxychloroquine use with lipid profiles in rheumatoid arthritis: pharmacologic implications. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2014 Nov;66(11):1619-26. PubMed PMID: 24692402
• Sokolove J, Johnson DS, Lahey LJ, Wagner CA, Cheng D, Thiele GM, Michaud K, Sayles H, Reimold AM, Caplan L, Cannon GW, Kerr G, Mikuls TR, Robinson WH. Rheumatoid factor as a potentiator of anti-citrullinated protein antibody-mediated inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2014 Apr;66(4):813-21. PubMed PMID: 24757134
• Davis LA, Polk B, Mann A, Wolff RK, Kerr GS, Reimold AM, Cannon GW, Mikuls TR, Caplan L. Folic acid pathway single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with methotrexate significant adverse events in United States veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2014 May-Jun;32(3):324-32. PubMed PMID: 24447348
• Hirsh JM, Davis LA, Quinzanos I, Keniston A, Caplan L. Health literacy predicts discrepancies between traditional written patient assessments and verbally administered assessments in rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol. 2014 Feb;41(2):256-64. PubMed PMID: 24334642
• Davis LA, Whitfield E, Cannon GW, Wolff RK, Johnson DS, Reimold AM, Kerr GS, Richards JS, Mikuls TR, Caplan L. Association of rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility gene with lipid profiles in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2014 Jun;53(6):1014-21. PubMed PMID: 24489016
• Pittman CB, Davis LA, Zeringue AL, Caplan L, Wehmeier KR, Scherrer JF, Xian H, Cunningham FE, McDonald JR, Arnold A, Eisen SA. Myocardial infarction risk among patients with fractures receiving bisphosphonates. Mayo Clin Proc. 2014 Jan;89(1):43-51. PubMed PMID: 24388021
• Davis LA, Mann A, Cannon GW, Mikuls TR, Reimold AM, Caplan L. Validation of diagnostic and procedural codes for identification of acute cardiovascular events in US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes) 2013; 1(3), article 8. DOI: 10.13063/2327-9214.1023. ISSN: 2327-9214. Accessible at: http://repository.academyhealth.org/egems/vol1/iss3/8/
• Soriano ER, Acosta-Felquer ML, Luong P, Caplan L. Pharmacologic treatment of psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis with traditional biologic and non-biologic DMARDs. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2014 Oct;28(5):793-806. PubMed PMID: 25488785
• Mikuls TR, Michaud K, Thiele GM, O’Dell JR, Cannella AC, Reimold A, Hooker R, Caplan L, Johnson D, Richards JS, Kerr G, Cannon GW. Autoantibody status in U.S. veterans with rheumatoid arthritis: implications of discordance between anti-CCP antibody and rheumatoid factor. American College of Rheumatology 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 24-29, 2008.
• Hooker RS, Prescott K, Cipher D, Wauson M, Mikuls T, Kerr G, Richards SJ, Cannon G, Caplan L, Hines A, Johnson D, Reimold A. Fit for Study: Eligibility of Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Major Clinical Trials of Biological Therapies. American College of Rheumatology 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 24-29, 2008.
• Caplan L, Pittman CB, Zeringue A, Scherrer JF, Cunningham FE, Eisen SA, McDonald JR. Musculoskeletal pain among patients on bisphosphonates: a possible adverse drug reaction. American College of Rheumatology 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 24-29, 2008
• Scherrer JF, Virgo KS, Zeringue A, Bucholz KK, Jacob T, Johnson RG, True WR, Carney RM, Freedland KE, Xian H, Caplan L, McDonald J, Eisen SA. Depression increases risk of incident myocardial infarction among Veterans Administration patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2009 Jul-Aug;31(4):353-9.
• Richards JS, Peng J, Mikuls TR, Amdur RL, Hooker RS, Michaud K, Reimold AM, Cannon GW, Caplan L, Johnson D, Hines AE, Kerr GS. Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry and evaluation of the Osteoporosis Self Assessment Tool in men with rheumatoid arthritis. J Clin Densitom 2009;12(4):434-440.
• Caplan L, Pittman CB, Zeringue AL, Scherrer JF, Wehmeier KR, Cunningham FE, Eisen SA, McDonald JR. Musculoskeletal pain among patients on bisphosphonates: a possible adverse drug reaction. Mayo Clin Proc 2010;85(4) [in press]
• Hirsh JM, Boyle DJ, Collier DH, Oxenfeld A, Caplan L. Health literacy predicts the discrepancy between patient and provider global assessments of rheumatoid arthritis activity at a public urban rheumatology clinic. J Rheumatol 2010 (Accepted).
• Miriovsky BJ, Michaud K, Thiele GM, O’Dell JR, Cannon GW, Kerr GS, Richards JS, Johnson D, Caplan L, Reimold AM, Hooker RS, Mikuls TR. Anti-CCP antibody and rheumatoid factor concentrations predict greater disease activity in men with rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2010 (Accepted).
• Caplan L, Hines AE, Williams E, Prochazka AV, Saag KG, Cunningham F, Hutt E. An observational study of glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis prophylaxis in a national cohort of male veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoporosis International 2010 (Accepted).
• 14 research abstracts accepted to 6 meetings and symposia during 2009-2010.
• Davis LA, Larson MM, Caplan L. Observational study to determine predictors of rheumatology clinic visit provider contact time. Arthritis Care and Research 2010 Nov;62(11):1650-4. PMID: 20583104
• Mikuls TR, Fay BT, Michaud K, Sayles H, Thiele GM, Caplan L, Johnson D, Richards JS, Kerr GS, Cannon GW, Reimold A. Associations of disease activity and treatments with mortality in men with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the VARA registry. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2011 Jan;50(1):101-9. Epub 2010 Jul 21. PMID: 20659916
• Kerr GS, Sabahi I, Richards JS, Caplan L, Cannon GW, Reimold A, Thiele GM, Johnson D, Mikuls TR. Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency in rheumatoid arthritis and associations with disease severity and activity. J Rheumatol. 2011 Jan;38(1):53-9. Epub 2010 Oct 15. PMID: 20952475
• Grossman JM, Gordon R, Ranganath VK, Deal C, Caplan L, Chen W, Curtis JR, Furst DE, McMahon M, Patkar NM, Volkmann E, Saag KG. American College of Rheumatology 2010 recommendations for the prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. Arthritis Care and Research 2010 Nov;62(11):1515-26. PMID: 20662044
• Saag KG, Yazdany J, Alexander C, Caplan L, Coblyn J, Parekh Desai S, Harrington T, Liu J, McNiff K, Newman E, Olson R. Defining quality of care in rheumatology: the American College of Rheumatology white paper on quality measurement. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011 Jan;63(1):2-9. PMID: 20945349
• Mikuls TR, Gould KA, Bynote KK, Yu F, LeVan TD, Thiele GM, Michaud KD, O’Dell JR, Reimold AM, Hooker R, Caplan L, Johnson DS, Kerr G, Richards JS, Cannon GW, Criswell LA, Noble JA, Bridges SL, Hughes L, Gregersen PK. Anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) in rheumatoid arthritis: influence of an interaction between HLA-DRB1 shared epitope and a deletion polymorphism in glutathione s-transferase in a cross-sectional study. Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010 Nov 18;12(6):R213. PMID: 21087494
• Lane MA, McDonald JR, Zeringue AL, Caplan L, Curtis JR, Ranganathan P, Eisen SA. Hospitalization for infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Medicine 2011 (Accepted).
• Amari W, Zeringue AL, McDonald JR, Caplan L, Eisen SA, Ranganathan P. Risk of non-melanoma skin cancer in a national cohort of veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology 2011 (Accepted).
• Eight abstracts accepted this year at national meetings. I was first author on two of them (one accepted for a podium presentation at the ACR Annual Scientific Meeting) and senior author on one of them.
• Anderson J, Zimmerman L, Caplan L, Michaud K. Rheumatiod arthritis disease activity measures: A description and analysis of selected measurement tools. Arthritis Care Res.
• Shahouri SH, Michaud K, Mikuls TR, Caplan L, Shaver TS, Anderson JD, Weidensaul DN, Busch RE, Wolfe F. Remission of rheumatoid arthritis in clinical practice: application of the ACR/EULAR 2011 remission criteria. Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Nov;63(11):3204-15. PMID: 21739423
• Hirsh JM, Boyle DJ, Collier DH, Oxenfeld AJ, Nash A, Quinzanos I, Caplan L. Limited health literacy is a common finding in a public health hospital’s rheumatology clinic and is predictive of disease severity. J Clin Rheumatol. 2011 Aug;17(5):236-41. PMID: 21778910.
• Mikuls TR, LeVan TD, Sayles H, Yu F, Caplan L, Cannon GW, Kerr GS, Reimold AM, Johnson DS, Thiele GM. Soluble CD14 and CD14 polymorphisms in rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol. 2011 Dec;38(12):2509-16. Epub 2011 Sep 15. PMID: 21921097.
• Cannon GW, Sauer BC, Hayden CL, Ying J, Curtis JR, Reimold AM, Caplan L, Kerr GS, Richards JS, Johnson DS, Mikuls TR. Merging Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis registry and pharmacy data to assess methotrexate adherence and disease activity in clinical practice. Arthritis Care Res. 2011 Dec; 63(12):1680-90. PMID: 21905260.
• Kazi S, Anderson J, Caplan L, Yazdany J, Robbins ML, Neogi T, Michaud K, Saag KG, O’Dell JR. Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity measures: American College of Rheumatology recommendations for use in clinical practice. Arthritis Care Res. 2011
• Masri KR, Shaver TS, Shahouri SH, Wang S, Anderson JD, Busch RE, Michaud K, Mikuls TR, Caplan L, Wolfe F. Validity and reliability problems with patient global as a component of the ACR/EULAR Remission Criteria as used in clinical practice. J Rheumatol. 2011
• Grossman JM, Ranganath VK, Chen W, Furst DE, McMahon M, Volkmann E, Gordon R, Deal C, Caplan L, Curtis JR, Patkar NM, Saag KG. Reply. Fracture risk in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis: Comment on the article by Grossman et al. Arthritis Care and Research 2012 Jan;64(1):157-158.
• Sen R, Caplan L. Current treatment and molecular targets for axial spondyloarthritis: evidence from randomized controlled trials. Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2022 Dec;67:102307. doi: 10.1016/j.coph.2022.102307. Epub 2022 Nov 3. PMID: 36335714.
• Sabahi I, Richards JS, Mikuls TR, Rangan B, Reimold A, Cannon GW, Johnson D, Caplan L, Kerr GS. Association of cardiovascular disease with the metabolic syndrome in a predominantly male cohort with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid Arthritis: Etiology, Consequences and Co-Morbidities. Lemmey, Andrew B., ed. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech Open Access Publisher; 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-847-2. Available: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/association-of-cardiovascular-disease-with-the-metabolic-syndrome-in-a-predominantly-male-cohort-wit (Accessed 1/12/12).
• Sen R, Kim E, Napier RJ, Cheng E, Fernandez A, Manning ES, Anderson ER, Maier KD, Hashim M, Kerr GS, Fang MA, Hou JK, Chang E, Walsh JA, Raychadhuri SP, Reimold A, Caplan L. Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio as Biomarkers in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Observational Studies From the Program to Understand the Longterm Outcomes in Spondyloarthritis Registry. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2023 Feb;75(2):232-241. doi: 10.1002/art.42333. Epub 2022 Dec 23. PMID: 36053919; PMCID: PMC9892177.
• Ten abstracts accepted this year at national meetings. I was first author on one of them and senior author on two of them.
• Edward JA, Josey K, Bahn G, Caplan L, Reusch JEB, Reaven P, Ghosh D, Raghavan S. Heterogeneous treatment effects of intensive glycemic control on major adverse cardiovascular events in the ACCORD and VADT trials: a machine learning analysis. Cardiovasc Diabetol 2022 Apr 27;21(1):58 doi: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1439428/v1 PMID: 35477454
• Raghavan S, Warsavage T, Liu WG, Raffle K, Josey K, Saxon DR, Phillips LS, Caplan L, Reusch JEB. Trends in timing of and glycemia at initiation of second-line type 2 diabetes treatment in US adults. Diabetes Care. 2022 Mar 28:dc212492. doi: 10.2337/dc21-2492. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35344584
• Caplan L, Haverhals L. Barriers and facilitators for preventing Adverse Drug Reactions of Long Latency: a qualitative study. Int J Risk Saf Med. 2012;24(2):81-94. PMID: 22751190
• Carvajal Bedoya G, Caplan L, Christopher KL, Reddy AK, Ifantides C. Tattoo granulomas with uveitis. J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep, 8:2324709620975968, 31 Dec 2019 PMID: 33238758
• Daniel CM, Davila L, Makris UE, Mayo H, Caplan L, Davis L, Solow EB. Ethnic disparities in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease prevalence among rheumatoid arthritis patients in the United States: a systematic review. ACR Open Rheumatology, 31 Aug 2020, 2(9):525-532 DOI: 10.1002/acr2.11170 PMID: 32869533
• Caplan L, Davis LA, Bright CM, Kerr GS, Lazaro DM, Khan NA, Richards JS, Johnson DS, Cannon GW, Reimold AM, Mikuls TR. Body mass index and the rheumatoid arthritis swollen joint count: an observational study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2012 May 23. PMID: 22623288
• Mikuls TR , Padala PR, Sayles HR, Fang Y, Michaud K, Caplan L, Kerr GS, Reimold A, Cannon GW, Richards JS, Lazaro D, Thiele GM, Boscarino JA. A prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and disease activity outcomes in U.S. veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2012 Jun 27. PMID: 22740431
• Raghavan S, Liu WG, Berkowitz SA, Barón AE, Plomondon ME, Maddox TM, Reusch JEB, Ho PM, Caplan L. Association of glycemic control trajectory with short-term mortality in diabetes patients with high cardiovascular risk: a joint latent class modeling study. J Gen Intern Med, 35(8):2266-2273, 23 Apr 2020 PMID: 32333313
• Richards JS, Cannon GW, Hayden CL, Amdur RL, Lazaro D, Mikuls TR, Reimold AM, Caplan L, Johnson DS, Schwab P, Cherascu BN, Kerr GS. Adherence with bisphosphonate therapy in US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2012 Dec;64(12):1864-70. PMID: 22740421
• Hirsh J, Wood P, Keniston A, Boyle D, Quinzanos I, Caplan L, Davis L. Universal health literacy precautions are associated with a significant increase in medication adherence in vulnerable rheumatology patients. ACR Open Rheumatol. 2020 Jan 19. doi: 10.1002/acr2.11108. [Epub aheadof print] PMID: 31957348
• Lin CT, McKenzie M, Pell J, Raeburn C, Caplan L. Evaluating a novel reformatting of the SOAP note to emphasize the assessment and plan. JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173(2):160-162. doi:10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.474.
• Dill SL, Brees K, Stahly A, Cheng E, Carpenter J, Caplan L. Mechanical shock during shipping of medications: the roles of packaging and transportation vendors. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. J Pharm Sci. 2020 Jan;109(1):670-676. doi: 10.1016/j.xphs.2019.10.050. Epub 2019 Oct 31. PMID: 31678248
• Stoll ML, Huizar E, Caplan L. Back to the Future; Is the Schober Test Dispensable in Juvenile Spondyloarthritis? J Rheumatol. 2023 Feb 1;. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.221231. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36725058.
• Caplan AM, Caplan L. The GRADE method. Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2022 Aug;48(3):589-599. doi: 10.1016/j.rdc.2022.04.002. Epub 2022 Jul 5. PMID: 35953225
• Maksymowych WP, van den Bosch F, Caplan L, Lambert RG, Østergaard M. Improving the design of randomized placebo-controlled trials for non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis: an expert opinion. Nat Rev Rheumatol 2022 May 13. doi: 10.1038/s41584-022-00789-1. PMID: 35562426
• Sen R, Caplan L. The never-ending conflict (of interest). Arthritis Rheumatol, 72(9):1412-1414, 20 Jul 2020 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/art.41394 PMID: 32524736
• Davis LA, Cannon GW, Pointer L, Haverhals LM, Wolff RK, Mikuls TR, Reimold AM, Kerr GS, Richards JS, Johnson DS, Valuck R, Prochazka A, Caplan L. Cardiovascular events are not associated with MTHFR polymorphisms, but are associated with methotrexate use and traditional risk factors in US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheum. 2013 (Accepted).
• Six abstracts accepted to national meetings, senior author on four of them. Three were selected for oral presentations.

Practice Locations

• University of Colorado Hospital
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Specialty Information

• Rheumatology, Board Certification (2005)

• Bones, Joints and Muscles
• Immune System - Autoimmune Disorders
• Bones, Joints and Muscles - Osteoporosis
• Immune System