Sheldon L. Kaplan MD

Dr. Kaplan is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Kaplan is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Missouri School of Medicine-Columbia. He was a resident in Pediatrics and a fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

Dr. Kaplan is Professor and Executive Vice-Chair and Head of the Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of the Infectious Disease Service as well as the Head of the Department of Pediatric Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX.

Dr. Kaplan is a Past President of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and served on the Anti-Infectives Advisory Committee of the FDA. Dr. Kaplan and served for 7 years on the Subboard of Pediatric Infectious Diseases of The American Board of Pediatrics including 2 years as chair. In 2011 Dr. Kaplan received the Arnold J. Rudolph Baylor Pediatric Award for Lifetime Excellence in Teaching. In 2019 he received the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases Distinguished Award for Education and also had an Endowed Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine named in his honor.