Matthew A. Silver, MD

Biography

Director of Educational Informatics; Associate Professor

Clinical Science

Dr. Matthew Silver specializes in Emergency Medicine and has shared his knowledge and insights with medical students throughout his career. He is the founding and current Program Director of the Kaiser Permanente Emergency Medicine Residency Program. He has served on the editorial review boards of The Permanente Journal and Journal of Emergency Medicine since 2012.

Education and Training

Degrees: BS, Binghamton University
MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Residency: Internship, Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center
Jacobi-Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chief Residency, Jacobi-Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Professional Positions

Staff Physician: Department of Emergency Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center; 2004-2009

Staff Physician: Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center; 2009-present

Founding Program Director: Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center; 2012-present

Planning Committee Member: Kaiser Permanente Annual Emergency Medicine Symposium; 2013-present

Co-Director of Graduate Medical Education: Kaiser Permanente San Diego Service Area; 2014-present

Committee Chair, Patient Experience Task Force: Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD); 2015-2016

Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Riverside School of Medicine; 2016-present

Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventative Medicine; 2011-present

Member, Curriculum Committee and IT Steering Committee: Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine; 2016-present

Educational Technologies Lead: Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine; 2016-present

Honors and Awards

Excellence in Emergency Medicine: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM); 2000

Davidoff Society for Excellence in Teaching: Albert Einstein College of Medicine; 2004

Teacher of the Year: Jacobi-Montefiore Emergency Medicine Program; 2006

Fellow: American College of Emergency Physicians; 2011

Top Doc Award: San Diego County Medical Society; 2013-2015

Top Doc Award: San Diego County Medical Society; 2017, 2018

Scholarly Activities

Selected peer-reviewed research manuscripts

London K, Druck J, Silver M, Finefrock D. Teaching the Emergency Department Patient Experience: Needs Assessment from the CORD-EM Task Force. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017;18:56-59.
Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Huang J, Reed ME, Lin JS, Kene MV, Sax DR, Rauchwerger AS, Wang DH, McLachlan DI, Pleshakov TS, Silver MA, Clague VA, Klonecke AS, Mark DG, for the MAPLE Investigators of the KP CREST Network. Outpatient management of emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism: variation, patient characteristics and outcomes. Ann Emerg Med 2017.
Battaglia A, Burchette R, Hussman J, Silver MA, Martin P, Bernstein P. Comparison of Medical Therapy Alone to Medical Therapy with Surgical Treatment of Peritonsillar Abscess. Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2017.
Schwartz A, Silver M, Antoline M, Brodmann K. Utilization of Business Intelligence Software for an Emergency Department Dashboard. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2017;Volume 70, Supplement, Page S45.
Sharp AL, Nagaraj G, Rippberger EJ, Shen E, Swap CJ, Silver MA, McCormick T, Vinson DR, Hoffman JR. Computed Tomography Use for Adults with Head Injury: Describing Likely Avoidable ED Imaging based on the Canadian CT Head Rule. Acad Emerg Med. 2016 Jul 30.