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Barbara Silverman, MD, Preventive Medicine, Baltimore, MD

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Preventive Medicine • Baltimore, MD

Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

Director, Israel National Cancer Registry, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem Israel

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Summary

  • Dr. Barbara Silverman is an epidemiologist, the Director of the Israel National Cancer Registry and a lecturer at the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from University of Maryland School of Medicine and has been in practice 33 years. She is Board-certified Public Health & General Preventive Medicine and is experienced in public health, health services research, and pharmacoepidemiology. She has more than 30 publications and over 400 citings.

Education & Training

  • New York Medical College
    New York Medical CollegeResidency, Preventive Medicine, 1986 - 1987
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthResidency, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, 1985 - 1986
  • Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
    Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public HealthMaster, 1985 - 1986
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
    Sinai Hospital of BaltimoreInternship, Internal Medicine, 1984 - 1985
  • University of Maryland School of Medicine
    University of Maryland School of MedicineClass of 1984
  • Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University
    Stern College for Women, Yeshiva UniversityB.A, 1976 - 1980

Certifications & Licensure

  • MD State Medical License
    MD State Medical License 1985 - 2013
  • American Board of Preventive Medicine Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
  • American Board of Preventive MedicinePreventive Medicine and Public Health

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Use of a refined drug tracer algorithm to estimate prevalence and incidence of Parkinson’s disease in a large Israeli population.  
    Chillag-Talmor O, Giladi N, Linn S, Gurevich T, El-Ad B, Silverman B, Friedman N, Peretz C, Journal of Parkinson’s Disease 2011;1:35-47
  • Chronic use of sleep medications--how serious is it in Israel?  
    Dagan Y, Dushenat M, Silverman B, [Article in Hebrew] Harefuah 2009 May;148(5):292-4, 352, 351.
  • Use of sentinel sites for daily monitoring of the U.S. blood supply.  
    Nightingale S, Wanamaker V, Silverman B, et al, Transfusion 2003;43(3):364-72
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Abstracts/Posters

  • Effect of a policy change on use of blood glucose monitors by diabetics with Medicare coverage.
    Silverman BG, ISPOR Third Annual European Conference Proceedings, 2000 Value in Health 3(5).
  • Implementing the delayed antibiotic therapy approach significantly reduced antibiotic consumption in Israel children with first acute otitis media (FAOM).
    Grossman Z, Silverman B, Porter B, Miron D, European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Annual Meeting, Brussels, Belgium
  • Varicella vaccine effectiveness in an Israeli health maintenance organization.
    Silverman BG, Hemo B, Friedman N, European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Annual Meeting, Brussels, Belgium

Lectures

  • Trends in Breast Cancer Incidence in a Setting of Increased Mammography Screening and Decreased Use of Oral Estrogen Replacement Therapy. 
    HMO Research Network Annual Meeting, Danville, PA, USA
  • Characteristics of users of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) in Maccabi Healthcare Services Members, 2006. 
    18th Israeli Medical Association World Fellowship International Conference. Jerusalem, Israel
  • Patterns of Home Medical Device Use in Home and Hospice Care Patients. 
    National Center for Health Statistics, National Conference on Health Statistics, Washington DC

Press Mentions

  • Poor Israelis from the Periphery More Likely to Die of Cancer - Study
    Poor Israelis from the Periphery More Likely to Die of Cancer - StudyJuly 13th, 2021
  • Galilee Medical Center and Medical Faculty Find Differences in Cancer Survival Depending on Socioeconomic Status
    Galilee Medical Center and Medical Faculty Find Differences in Cancer Survival Depending on Socioeconomic StatusJuly 13th, 2021
  • Regional Cancer Registries – 20 Years and Growing
    Regional Cancer Registries – 20 Years and GrowingNovember 7th, 2014
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Other Languages

  • Hebrew

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