Background
Silbermann was born on January 19, 1935 in the old quarters of the Arab city of Acre, Israel.
Silbermann was born on January 19, 1935 in the old quarters of the Arab city of Acre, Israel.
After completing his Doctor of Philosophy at Tufts University (under Jack Fromer and Larry Cavazos), he joined a new medical school at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa).
He is currently the executive director of the Following his military service, Silbermann moved to Jerusalem to study dental medicine at the Hadassah Faculty of Dentistry (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, doing his residency in oral surgery with Jacob Lewin-Epstcin. Following his studies in Jerusalem (1967), he moved to Boston (Master of Arts, United States) for specialty training in maxillo-facial surgery at Boston City Hospital under Philip Maloney and Chris Doku. After serving for 20 years as chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the Technion"s Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, and 10 years as director of the Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Research, he was elected dean of the Technion"s Faculty of Medicine.
Upon completing his tenure as dean, he was appointed Chief Scientist of the Israel Ministry of Health in Jerusalem, starting January 1993.
Silbermann is the executive director of the (MECC) since 1996.
Silbermann is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine published by the OMICS Publishing Group, a predatory publisher.