Norman Silverman

Clinical Focus

• Cardiology (Heart), Pediatric
• Pediatric Cardiology

Administrative Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,, Stanford University Medical Center (1974 - 1975)
• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,, University of California, San Francisco (1975 - 1982)
• Associate Professor of Pediatrics,, University of California, San Francisco (1979 - 1985)
• Professor of Radiology in Residence,, University of California, San Francisco (1985 - 2002)
• 2002–present Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology),, Stanford University Medical Center (2002 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Roma and Marvin Auerback Scholar in Pediatric Cardiolgy, Lucile packard Children's Hospital (2005)
• 13th Jerome Liebman Visiting Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (Feb 1996)
• Garbose Lecture, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC (9/18/1999)
• Janet Baldwin Lecture, , Society of Pediatric Cardiology of New York, New York (1999)
• Founder's Award, American Society of Echocardiography (2000)

Professional Education

• Board Certification: Pediatric Cardiology, American Board of Pediatrics (1975)
• Fellowship: UCSF Medical Center, CA (1974)
• Board Certification: General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1973)
• Residency: Johannesburg General Hospital, South Africa (1972)
• Medical Education: University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (1966)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Pediatrics
• Neonatology

Community & International Work

• Children's Heartlink Mumbai, India. 2007, Asian Heart Institue 

Research Interests

My research interests center around cardiac ultrasound. I am currently working on several areas in the development of human cardiac ultrasound.

The first is fetal cardiac ultrasound. I have continued to develop and foster research and development in this area. I am associated with the cardiac surgeons and interventional cardiologists to develop a program for fetal cardiac intervention at Stanford.

Secondly, I am currently establishing a program for development of three- dimensional ultrasound to aid conventional echocardiography in diagnosis and management. This program will assess both the prenatal and postnatal capabilities.

Publications

• Doppler Assessment of the Ratio of the Systolic to Diastolic Duration in Normal Children: Relation to Heart Rate, Age and Body Surface Area. Sarnari R, Kamal RY, Friedberg MK, Silverman NH "J Am Soc Echocardiogr" 2009
• Prenatal detection of congenital heart disease. Friedberg MK, Silverman NH, Moon-Grady AJ, Tong E, Nourse J, Sorenson B, Lee J, Hornberger LK "J Pediatr" 2009 ; 1 (155) : 26-31, 31.e1
• Diagnosis of patent ductus arteriosus by a neonatologist with a compact, portable ultrasound machine. Lee HC, Silverman N, Hintz SR "J Perinatol" 2007 ; 5 (27) : 291-6
• Right ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Friedberg MK, Silverman NH, Dubin AM, Rosenthal DN "J Am Soc Echocardiogr" 2007 ; 9 (20) : 1073-9
• The systolic to diastolic duration ratio in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: a novel Doppler index of right ventricular function. Friedberg MK, Silverman NH "J Am Soc Echocardiogr" 2007 ; 6 (20) : 749-55