Dr. Howard Silverman
- Dr. Silverman currently serves as the Assistant Dean for Information Resources, The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix where he oversees and coordinates IT services on the campus (desktop support, networking, computing security, applications development, and the like), biomedical communications, academic computing, web services, and the biomedical library. Additionally he works with the medical school curriculum, emphasizing the informatics components of the curriculum.
He is a Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and a Clinical Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and was formerly Special Assistant to the Vice Dean for Administration, College of Medicine in Phoenix. Prior to this position, he was the Education Director for the Program in Integrative Medicine and was formerly the Banner Health System Director of Medical Informatics and Clinical Innovation where he had organizational responsibility for creating synergy between care transformation activities, clinical innovation and information technology.
His past experiences in clinical innovation, medical informatics, medical education, implementing complementary / alternative medical practices, administration and individual and group mentoring give him a unique breadth of perspective and help establish credibility with the many constituencies within the provider community.
Dr. Silverman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Purdue University, majoring in Mathematics and German. He earned a Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he specialized in Artificial Intelligence applications in medical decision making. He then attended Stanford University School of Medicine followed by a residency in Family Practice at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
After completing his residency, Dr. Silverman entered private practice and had the privilege to serve as the Medical Director of Hospice of the Valley, the Samaritan Visiting Nurse Service, the Samaritan Care Center and was the Program Director for the Family Practice Residency at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. He also served as Chief Medical Officer for the American Centers for Health & Medicine, a Catholic Healthcare West sponsored experimental practice to integrate managed care reimbursed primary care services with complementary and alternative therapies.
His book, HEALING CEREMONIES: Creating Personal Rituals for Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and Mental Health, describes his experiences using ceremonies as a vehicle to integrate traditional medical care and personal healing experiences and acts as a primer for creating healing ceremonies.
Howard D. Silverman, MD MS
Assistant Dean for Information Resources
Clinical Professor, Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Basic Medical Sciences
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, in partnership with Arizona State University
Clinical Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University
550 East Van Buren Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2230
Phone: (602) 827-2015
FAX: (602) 827-2221
Email: HowardS@u.arizona.edu
