Don Silberberg
Biography
Donald Silberberg is Professor of Neurology, Senior Associate Dean and Director of International Programs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from the University of Michigan School of Medicine, trained in neurology at the National Institutes of Health and as a Fulbright Scholar at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London. Dr. Silberberg joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963; he served as Chairman of the Department of Neurology from 1982-1994. Dr. Silberberg's research has focused on multiple sclerosis, and related immunological and infectious disorders of the nervous system. A parallel focus has been on behalf of clinical neuroscience in the developing world. In this capacity, Dr. Silberberg has served as a consultant for WHO and World Bank conferences. Dr. Silberberg is Co-Chairman of the World Federation of Neurology's Research Group on Organization and Delivery of Neurological Services. In this capacity he has helped to organize international conferences focusing on ways to improve the prevention and care of disorders of the nervous system in developing countries and in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1993, Dr. Silberberg founded the Neurology International Partnership Program, which now links 230 neurology departments in market economy countries with 235 departments in the developing world, to facilitate transfers of educational materials and bilateral exchanges. Dr. Silberberg serves on numerous editorial boards, has published 165 scientific reports, chapters and reviews, and currently serves as Principal Investigator for a USAID-funded partnership program in maternal and child health that links the University of Pennsylvania with two hospitals in Kiev, Ukraine.
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