About

Dr. Michael Kaplan was born in Los Angeles and raised in Burbank in the San Fernando Valley. He graduated from John Burroughs High School in Burbank as class valedictorian where he also served as school auditor. He went on to attend Pomona College on scholarship and played as catcher for their varsity baseball team. At Pomona College Dr. Kaplan was elected to Phi Beta Kappa an international honors society. He then attended medical school at the University of California Los Angeles on a full scholarship and graduated in 1967. After spending two summers working at Olive View Hospital in the San Fernando Valley he decided to pursue ophthalmology as a career path.