CURRICULUM VITAE
OFFICE ADDRESS: Northside Cardiology
960 Johnson Ferry Road
Suite 500
Atlanta, GA 30342
(404) 256-2525
JOB POSITION: Cardiologist, practice established 1973
MEDICAL SCHOOL: Ohio State University
Degree BS/MD
1960-1967
INTERNSHIP & Vanderbilt University Hospital
RESIDENCY: Department of Medicine
` July 1, 1967 to July 1, 1969
FELLOWSHIP: Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Department of Cardiology
July 1, 1971- July 1, 1973
TEACHING
APPOINTMENTS: Emory University
Department of Medicine (Cardiology)
1973 to present
MEMBERSHIP ON Vanderbilt University Hospital
HOSPITAL STAFFS Nashville, TN
Johns Hopkins University Hospital,
Baltimore, MD
Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, GA
St. Joseph Hospital, Atlanta, GA
MEMBERSHIPS: American College of Physicians
American Heart Association
American Medical Association
American College of Cardiology
Atlanta Medical History Society
American Osler Society
POSITIONS: Director of Cardiology Northside Hospital
1973-2001
Director of Internal Medicine Education
1973-2001
Chairman of Northside Hospital IRB 1999-2001
Editor Medical Association of Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Medicine 2000-
Chairman education committee “Georgia Chapter
American College of Physicians
Chairman education committee Georgia Chapter
American College of Cardiology in charge of the
Annual scientific meeting 2000-2004
FELLOWSHIP: American College of Physicians
American College of Cardiology
CERTIFIED: American Board of Internal Medicine
Medicine 1972; Cardiology 1974
MILITARY SERVICE: U.S. Public Health Service
July 1969- July 1971
PUBLICATIONS: Graybill, RJ, Silverman, BD “Sulfur Granules
(Second Thoughts)” Arch Internal Med 123:430
-432 1969
Silverman, BD “Treading the Mill” Atl. Med.
29: 15-16 1975
Silverman, BD, Matthews, O. “Hemodynamic
Monitoring with the Swan-Ganz Catheter”
Atl Med 49:12 1975
Silverman, BD, Kozma, G. Silverman, ME, King, S “Echocardiographic Manifestations of Post-
Infarction Ventricular Septal Rupture”Chest 68:
778-780 1975
PUBLICATIONS: Silverman, BD, “Valvular Heart Disease”
Chapter in Fourth Edition of the The Heart
Editied by J. Willis Hurst,M.D. Published
By McGraw Hill Publishing Co. 1974
Silverman, BD, Silverman, ME, “The
Diagnostic Capabilities and Limitations
Of the Electrocardiogram” Update I
The Heart Edited by J. Willis Hurst, M.D.
Published by McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
Pp 13-45 1979
Silverman, BD, “Unstable Angina Pectoris”
Hospital Medicine May 1982 pp 32
Silverman, BD, Carabajal, ND, Chorches, MA
“Tricuspid Regurgitation and Acute Myocardial
Infarction” Arch Int Med 7:1394-5 1982
Silverman, BD, Berry, JN, Flowers, C “The
Symptom Complex of Mitral Valve Prolapse
And Its Association with the DaCosta Syndrome
SMA 77,I:27-29 1984
DiBianco, R, Shabitar, R, Silverman, BD,
Leior, C “Oral Amrinone for the Treatment of
Chronic Congestive Heart Failure: Results of
Multicenter Randomized Double-blinded and
Placebo controlled Withdrawl Study J Am Coll
Cardiol 1984 4(5):855-66
Silverman, BD Neeld, J “Evaluation of the
Cardiac Patient for Non-Cardiac Surgery
J Med Ass GA 73:315-318 1984
Davis, SG, Silverman, BD “ Hemodynamic
Monitoring” Cardiovascular Nursing BodyMind
Tapestry C.V. Mosby Unit III Chapter 10: 253-
274
Silverman, BD, Merrill, A Gerber, L “Amrinone
Clinical Effects and Side Effects of Amrinone,
Arch Int Med 1985 145(5):825-9
CAST Investigators “Preliminary Report: Effect
Encaninide and Flecainide on Mortality in a
Randomized Trial of Arrhythmia Suppression
After Myocardial Infarction NEJM 1989 321:
406-412
Silverman, BD Carl J Wiggers-the Inventive
Physiologist 1883-1963 Clinical Cardiology 1989
12:731-734
Silverman, BD Reflex Syncope Current
Understanding of the Pathophysiology and
Therapies J Med Ass GA 1991 80: 39-43
Bradford, RH, Shear, CL Chremos, AN and
Excel Study investigators Expanded Clinical
Evaluation of Lovastatin (Excel Study Results)
Arch Int Med 1991 151:43-49
Collentine T, Collier, MJ, Crews, T, Davis, W
Morris, D, Silverman, BD, Wilmer, C, Wilson Jr,
JS, A Stitch in Time for the Heart Attack
Patient J Med Ass GA 1995 84:22-26
Silverman, BD Jean Baptiste Bouillaud
Clinical Cardiology 1996 19(10):836-7
Silverman, BD Mitral Valve Prolapse: Clinical
Assessment and Management Strategies
Resident and Staff Physician January 1998
Cohn, JN and Vernarinone Investigators A
Dose-Dependent Increase in Mortality with
Vesnarinone among Patients with Severe
Heart Failure NEJM 1998 339:1810-16
MERIT INVESTIGATORS STUDIES
Wikstrand, J, Hialmarson, A, Waagstein, F,
Goldstein, S and Merit Investigators Dose
Of metoprolol CR/XL and clinical outcomes in
Patients with heart failure: analysis of the
Experience in metoprolol CR/XL randomized
Intervention trial in Chronic heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40:(3)491-8
Wikstrand J, Hjalmarson A, Waagstein F, Fagerberg
B, Goldstein S, KjekshusJ, Wedel H.
Dose of metoprolol CR/XL and clinical outcomes in
patients with heart failure:analysis of the experience
in metoprolol CR/XL randomized intervention trial
in chronic heart failure (MERIT-HF).J Am Coll
Cardiol. 2002 Aug 7;40(3):491-8.
Goldstein S, Fagerberg B, Hjalmarson A, Waagstein
F, Wedel H, Wikstrand J. Metoprolol controlled
release/extended release in patients with severe heart
failure: analysis of the experience in the MERIT-HF
study.J Am Coll Cardiol. 2001 Oct;38(4):932-8.
Ghali JK, Pina IL, Gottlieb SS, Deedwania PC,
Wikstrand JC. Metoprolol CR/XL in female patients
with heart failure: analysis of the experience in
Metoprolol Extended-Release Randomized
Intervention Trial in HeartFailure (MERIT-HF).
Circulation. 2002 Apr 2;105(13):1585-91.
Effect of metoprolol CR/XL in chronic heart
failure: Metoprolol CR/XL Randomised
Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure
(MERIT-HF)Lancet.1999 Jun 12;353(9169):2001-7.
Goldstein S, Hjalmarson A.
The mortality effect of metoprolol CR/XL in
patients with heart failure: resultsof the MERIT-HF
Trial. Clin Cardiol. 1999 Oct;22 Suppl 5:V30-5.
Hjalmarson A, Goldstein S, Fagerberg B, Wedel H,
Waagstein F, Kjekshus J,Wikstrand J, El Allaf D,
And MERIT Investigators
Effects of controlled-release metoprolol on total
mortality, hospitalizations,and well-being in patients
with heart failure: the Metoprolol CR/X
Randomized Intervention Trial in congestive heart
failure (MERIT-HF). MERIT-HF Study Group.
JAMA. 2000 Mar 8;283(10):1295-302.
Gottlieb SS, Fisher ML, Kjekshus J, Deedwania P,
Gullestad L, Vitovec J Wikstrand J.
Tolerability of beta-blocker initiation and titration
in the Metoprolol CR/XL Randomized Intervention
Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF).
Circulation. 2002 Mar 12;105(10):1182-8.
Silverman, BD Safety and Benefits of transferring
patients with Acute MI to interventional Center for
Immediate PCI J Am Coll Card letter to editor
2003 41(3):518
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