About Henry Silverman
Henry J. Silverman, M.D., M.A. is Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Dr. Silverman completed his medical education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, followed by an internship and residency at Baltimore City Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a masters degree in bioethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Silverman is the chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He teaches in the Master of Public Health Program at the School of Medicine. He currently holds a grant from the National Institutes of Health under which he directs a training program in research ethics for individuals from the Middle East. His major research interests include investigating the attitudes and perspectives of investigators and patients regarding clinical trials. His major educational interest consists of developing distance learning programs in medical ethics and research ethics.Author Archive | Henry Silverman
Ethical and Professional Issues Reported by Medical Students
A recently published article in the Journal of Medical Ethics entitled “Through students’ eyes: ethical and professional issues identified by third-year medical students during clerkships”, reported on the predominant ethical and professional issues cited by medical students. Kaldjian and colleagues performed a content analysis of 272 Case Observation and Assessments written by 141 third-year medical [...]
Ethics in the News
Several recent news items worth mentioning: Eletronic Physicians Orders for End-of-Life Treatment States are creating electronic databases that will store physicians’ orders regarding the type of care patients want at the end of their lives. The goal is to make such orders more readily available to emergency workers, as paper based orders (including advance directives) [...]
People want to be asked for their permission to share their genetic data
Researchers at the Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington (UW) has published their study in which they discovered that peopled want to be informed and asked for their consent to share their coded, de-identified genetic information in a federal database. This study, published in the September 2010 Journal of Empirical Research on [...]
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Henry J. Silverman, M.D., M.A. is Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Dr. Silverman completed his medical education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, followed by an internship and residency at Baltimore City Hospital.... Read more
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