Dr. Stuart Silverman Bio
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Stuart L. Silverman MD FACP FACR Dr Silverman was born in Chicago. He graduated from Princeton University cum laude in biology with an interest in art history. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins in 1973. He was an intern and resident in the Boston University Hospital system and was a rheumatology fellow at Boston University under Dr Alan Cohen. Following his rheumatology fellowship he was a Thorndike research fellow. He is board certified in internal medicine, rheumatology and allergy-immunology. Dr Silverman is the author of over 50 original articles, 100 abstracts and 10 book chapters. Dr Silverman has served as lecturer in rheumatology at Tufts University, assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania and is currently Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. He has served as acting chief of rheumatology at Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center where he currently holds a research appointment. His clinical practice is based at Cedars-Sinai where he sees rheumatology patients and has a special interest in fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, myofascial pain syndromes and osteoporosis. 20% of his time is spent in teaching and research, providing free medical care. Dr Silverman is medical director of the OMC Clinical Research Center, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, with the mission of bringing cutting edge research and education to the community. The OMC is currently running over 20 clinical trials for patients with fibromyalgia, osteoporosis, women's health, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The OMC has been the recipient of both federal (NIH) and state grants. Dr Silverman has taken a leadership role in clinical research. He has served as President of a clinical research organization and President of a nonprofit research site management organization, Osnet. In fibromyalgia, Dr Silverman is the medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Fibromyalgia Rehab Program, which he founded over 10 years ago as one of the first multidisciplinary FM programs based on behavioral principles of self-management. Dr.Silverman has served on the boards of the Fibromyalgia Network, the Fibromyalgia Awareness Campaign, the fibromyalgia task force of the Southern California Arthritis Foundation. He has served as medical editor of the medical supplement of Fibromyalgia Aware , a national magazine. He was the director of the first international fibromyalgia conference, FAME in Los Angeles in 2000. In osteoporosis, Dr Silverman
is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Education
Committee, and Network Task Force of the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
With Debby Gold and Barbara Miller he wrote Choices, an internationally
recognized self-management course in osteoporosis. In 1993 Dr Silverman lives in Pacific Palisades where he is married to a very understanding wife, Ellen, and has two children and a soft-coated wheaten terrier, Waggles. |
