Background
Silverman, Benjamin K. was born on July 21, 1924 in Baltimore. Son of Charles and Flora (Krulewich) Silverman.
Silverman, Benjamin K. was born on July 21, 1924 in Baltimore. Son of Charles and Flora (Krulewich) Silverman.
Bachelor, Johns Hopkins University, 1947. Doctor of Medicine, University Maryland, 1948.
Intern rotating, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, 1948-1949;
intern pediatrics with Doctor Harold Harrison, Baltimore City Hospitals, 1949-1950;
resident pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1950-1951;
fellow pediatric cardiology, National Heart Institute, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1953-1954;
research fellow pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, 1954;
private practice, Princeton, New Jersey, 1954-1985;
coordinator heart disease control program, New Jersey Department Health, 1955-1959;
department chairman pediatrics, Medical Center Princeton, 1960-1962, 72-74;
director pediatric education, Medical Center Princeton, 1974-1980;
attending instructor emergency department, Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, 1980-1991. Consulting pediatrician Premature Infant Health and Development Program, CHOP, 1986-1990. Coordinator life support courses American Academy Pediatrics, 1990-1991.
Member of advisory office of research reporting National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 1978-1980, member panel antenatal diagnosis consensus development conference on fetal distress, 1978-1979. Co-editor Clinical Pediatrics, 1979-1988, editor, 1988-1991. Attending physician, preceptor, lecturer, course director, instructor Advanced Pediatric Life Support, instructor Pediatric Advanced Life Support, course director Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, Emergency Care of Very Ill Child, 1983-1991.
Clinical associate professor Pediatrics University of Pennsylvania School Medicine, 1982-1991, professor, 1991-1995. Visiting professor Clinical Pediatrics U. So.Calif. School Medicine, 1992-1993.
Cosulting pediatrician Trenton Neighborhood Health Center, 1968-1970. Physician Head Start, Control New Jersey, 1970-1976. Volunteer school physician Stuart School of Sacred Heart, Princeton, 1974-1985.
Member planning committee surgeon general's conferences Handicapped Children and their Families, Children's Hosp.Phila., 1982, Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Children, 1987. Consultant on site Programfor delivery health care to Polish Ministry Health, Project Hope, 1983-1991, Program for delivery Health Care, Island Grenada, 1984-1985, 85-86, 90. Consultant on site Evaluation of Emergency Superior vena cava syndrome, Seguro-Social System, Project Hope, Costa Rica, 1989.
Captain United States Air Force 1951-1953. Fellow American Academy Pediatrics (member section of emergency pediatrics, Executive Board directors New Jersey chapter 1964-1972, chairman pediatric practice committee New Jersey chapter 1968-1970). Member Ambulatory Pediatric Association, Society Behavioral Pediatrics.
Married Beverly Miller, December 28, 1948. Children: Richard, Steven, Robert, Jonathan.