SPECIALTY AND TITLE

Chair/Chief of Infectious Diseases

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

St Joseph’s Hospital, London, ON

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATIONS

Western University

AREA OF RESEARCH

Fecal Microbial Transplantation in the therapy of diseases associated with Gut dysbiosis including Oncology, and metabolic syndrome.

Infections in persons who inject drugs

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE AND/OR HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

Dr. Silverman is a pioneer in the field of Fecal Microbial Transplantation for treatment of Clostridium difficile. He was one of the first to perform the procedure in North America and he has established a large clinical and research program associated with this. He has conducted many studies of prevention of infectious complications of injection drug use and has worked extensively in developing countries doing research on HIV and Tropical Infections. He has over 140 peer reviewed publications including recently as a first or senior author in the Annals of Internal Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, JAMA series and Lancet Infectious Diseases.