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This is the second of three
stories featuring presenters at OU-COM’s 3rd Annual Continuing
Medical Education Conference and All Class Reunion, to be held
this weekend. This story features Mitchell Silver, D.O.
(’89). Earlier in the week we featured Karen
Thomas, D.O.
(’96); next is Bernie Siegel, M.D., the keynote speaker
for this year’s conference and who also will speak at
Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium Friday evening. The CME/All Class Reunion brings
back alumni to Athens for three days of continuing medical
education seminars, reunites classmates and makes new colleagues and
friends. For more information, call (740) 593-2176 or e-mail
Sharon Zimmerman, director of alumni affairs.
By Brooke Bunch
Mitchell Jon Silver, D.O.
(’89), will soon be
returning to his old home to share his knowledge on
revolutionary new treatments for heart disease to former
classmates.
On Oct. 2 at OU-COM’s CME
Conference and All Class Reunion, Silver will be giving a
30-minute lecture on newer management strategies for the
treatment of peripheral vascular disease and carotid artery
disease, which he said involves new technology that offers
patients a safer and more noninvasive way to be treated other
than traditional vascular surgery.
Silver is a Fellow of the
American College of Cardiology and the Society of Vascular
Medicine and Biology. He completed a cardiology fellowship at
the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1996, after which he
completed a vascular medicine fellowship and interventional
cardiology fellowship at the clinic.
“I’m going to talk about the
new procedure in treating carotid artery disease called carotid
stenting, a new technology FDA approved just two weeks ago,”
Silver said. “I’m also going to talk about limb salvage
procedures for patients with severe peripheral vascular disease.
“I think I can provide an
update on cutting-edge technology to primary care doctors whose
knowledge of these new treatments wouldn’t have come so soon.”
Silver joined the MidOhio
Cardiology and Vascular Consultants in 2000. He is board
certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and
interventional cardiology. Silver specializes in interventional
cardiology and peripheral vascular disease.
The OU-COM graduate has
presented at several national conferences and authored more than
41 original articles, book chapters and abstracts.
This is Silver’s second time
speaking at OU-COM’s annual conference, but he admits he returns
to Athens on a weekly basis. He is playing a major role in
starting a new cardiovascular and diabetes care center at
O’Bleness Memorial Hospital, called the Cornwell Center for
Cardiovascular and Diabetes Care, where patients can receive
care for heart and vascular disease as well as diabetes using a
cardiocatherization lab and other vascular procedures.
“Patients will have the
opportunity to participate in clinical research trials and
therefore have exposure to pioneering devices and medications
they otherwise wouldn’t have,” he said.
Silver said the Cornwell
Center, made possible by a $1.3 million donation from the
Cornwell family, should be completed in about nine months.
He is also a member of the
International Society of Cardiovascular Interventionists, the
American College of Cardiology, the American Medical
Association, the American College of Physicians, the American
Osteopathic Association, the Cleveland Academy of Physicians and
the Society of Vascular Medicine and Biology.
Silver was awarded the first
prize in a Fellows Abstract Competition at the annual Scientific
Session in San Diego in1998, hosted by the Society of Vascular
Medicine and Biology. He also received the honors of first prize
in the non-clinical category of the William E. Lower Fellowship
Thesis Prize, sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in
1998.
The Cleveland Clinic
Educational Foundation also recognized him in 1995 with the
International Traveling Fellow Award.
Prior to his fellowships,
Silver completed a residency in internal medicine at the clinic,
where he was honored as the Distinguished Senior Resident in the
Department of Internal Medicine. He completed his internship at
Doctors Hospital North in Columbus.
Silver resides in New Albany
with his wife, Janice, and their two daughters, Leah, 11, and
Rachel, 14.
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