Michael Silbermann
{{Short description|Israeli maxillofacial surgeon and health educator}}
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| birth_place = Acre, Israel
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| fields = Oral and maxillofacial surgery
| workplaces = Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Ministry of Health, Middle East Cancer Consortium
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| alma_mater = Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tufts University
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| doctoral_advisors = Jack Fromer and Larry Cavazos
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| awards = 2015 Honorary Member Award (Oncology Nursing Society)
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Michael Silbermann ({{Langx|he|מיכאל זילברמן}}) is an Israeli maxillofacial surgeon and health educator. He is currently the executive director of the Middle East Cancer Consortium.{{cite web |title=Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC) |url=http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/organization/global-health/research/mecc |website=NCI |publisher=National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health |accessdate=13 April 2015 |date=June 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404184700/http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/organization/global-health/research/mecc |archivedate=4 April 2015 }}
Background
Silbermann was born on January 19, 1935, in the old quarters of the Arab city of Acre then part of Mandatory Palestine under British administration.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ascopost.com/issues/may-25-2016/oncology-and-diplomacy-in-the-middle-east/|title=Oncology and Diplomacy in the Middle East - The ASCO Post|last=Piana|first=Ronald|date=May 25, 2016|website=The ASCO Post|language=en|access-date=2017-11-15}} His parents, Herbert and Marga-Miriam{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}} emigrated from their native Germany to Palestine in 1934.
Career
Following his military service, Silbermann moved to Jerusalem to study dental medicine at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine.
Following his studies in Jerusalem (1967), he moved to Boston (MA, United States) for specialty training in maxillo-facial surgery at Boston City Hospital under Philip Maloney and Chris Doku.{{cite journal |last1=Silbermann |first1=Michael |last2=Maloney |first2=Philip L. |last3=Doku |first3=H. Chris |title=Mandibular osteomyelitis in the patient with chronic alcoholism: Etiology, management, and statistical correlation |journal=Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology |date=October 1974 |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=530–4 |doi=10.1016/0030-4220(74)90082-6|pmid=4528636 }} After completing his Ph.D. at Tufts University (under Jack Fromer and Larry Cavazos), he joined a new medical school at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa).{{cite book |editor1-last=Rosner |editor1-first=Abbie |title=Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine |date=2001 |publisher=Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |location=Haifa, Israel |page=62}}
After serving for 20 years as chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the Technion's Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, and 10 years as director of the Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Research, he was elected dean of the Technion's Faculty of Medicine. Upon completing his tenure as dean, he was appointed Chief Scientist of the Israel Ministry of Health in Jerusalem, starting January 1993.
In 2015, Silbermann received the Honorary Member Award of the Oncology Nursing Society for his contributions to oncologic nursing.{{cite web |title=ONS Honors 2015 Distinguished Award Winners |url=https://www.ons.org/newsroom/news/ons-honors-2015-distinguished-award-winners |website=Oncology Nursing Society |accessdate=11 May 2015 |date=April 29, 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Middle East Cancer Consortium
Silbermann is the executive director of the Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC) since 1996.{{cite web |title=Emirates Oncology Conference: Palliative Care |url=https://guidebook.com/om/guide/27470/poi/2389539/ |publisher=Guidebook |accessdate=14 April 2015 |date=November 13, 2014 }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Silbermann |editor1-first=M |editor2-last=Slavkin |editor2-first=H |title=Current Advances in Skeletogenesis |date=1982 |publisher=Excerpta Medica |location=Amsterdam-Oxford-Princeton}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Bernes |editor1-first=DS |editor2-last=Abramsky |editor2-first=O |editor3-last=Silbermann |editor3-first=M |title=Director of Medical Research in Israel. Institutions and Scientists |date=1996 |publisher=Ministry of Health (Israel) and Laster Pages |location=Jerusalem, Israel}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Silbermann |editor1-first=M |title=Palliative Care to the Cancer Patient. The Middle East as a Model for Emerging Countries |date=2004 |publisher=Nova Publishers |location=New York, NY}}
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Category:Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Category:Israeli maxillofacial surgeons
Category:People from Acre, Israel
Category:Hebrew University-Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine alumni