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Ken Kaplan became an architect after a career as
a psychiatric social worker. These two professions give him a unique
perspective on how systems and people work and interact. Kaplan is Associate
Director at MIT Collaborative Initiatives, an incubator for projects that rethink
the way we think about complex problems. The Collaborative engages experts from
engineering, design, business, medicine, and the hard and soft sciences to
design innovative models for tackling big-picture social issues. Projects emerging
from the Collaborative have developed a comprehensive strategy for improving the
stroke treatment cycle of care and proposed a strategic design for curbing
childhood obesity. A current project will develop a systems-based strategy for improving
the treatment of military post-traumatic stress.
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