Alan L. Silver, MD, MPH
Alan L. Silver, MD, MPH is currently a Medical Officer at IPRO and an Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Dr. Silver received his undergraduate, master's degree and general preventive medicine residency training at the University of Michigan, and his medical degree and internal medicine residency training at Wayne State University. He subsequently was a fellow in community medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and general preventive medicine/public health.
In 1980, Dr. Silver helped to found a hospital-based general internal medicine group practice at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, and worked there for 17 years. Dr. Silver spent over ten years at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System where he was a medical director in Quality Management and an assistant attending in medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. In 1984, he received a three-year WK Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship. He has also been awarded mini-fellowships in medical ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University and in medical informatics at the National Library of Medicine. He is currently a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr Silver has been a medical officer at IPRO since 1994 and has been involved with the Health Care Quality Improvement Program since its inception.
Dr. Silver has studied quality-of-care practice patterns and their relationship to organizational structure and physician behavior for a variety of clinical conditions. He has authored or co-authored papers and reports in medical care organization, clinical practice evaluation, medical education, preventive services and medical ethics.