Dr. Silverstein's Index PageChan Soon-Shiong Scholar
Associate Director, Computation Institute
Computation Institute, Room 218
5735 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone (773) 834-8200 Fax (773) 834-8400
E-mail: jcs at uchicago dot edu
Scientific Director, Chicago Biomedical Consortium
President, HealthGrid.US Alliance
Jonathan C. Silverstein, associate director of the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory is associate professor of Surgery, Radiology, and The College, scientific director of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, and president of the HealthGrid.US Alliance. He focuses on the integration of advanced computing and communication technologies into biomedicine, particularly applying Grid computing, and on the design, implementation, and evaluation of high-performance collaboration environments for anatomic education and surgery. He holds an M.D. from Washington University (St. Louis) and an M.S. from Harvard School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. Dr. Silverstein provides leadership in information technology initiatives intended to transform operations at the University of Chicago Medical Center and is informatics director for the University of Chicago’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program. He has served on various national advisory panels and currently serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Lister Hill Center of the NIH National Library of Medicine.
Jonathan's CV: PDF version
Jonathan's NIH Biosketch: PDF version
MEDLINE search for Chicago[Affiliation] AND silverstein j [author] OR silverstein jc [author]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
Some images from our applications:
Virtual Reality: Immersive Hepatic Surgery Educational Environment (IHSEE) | Tiff version (1.1MB) | Composite Tiff image (9.1MB)
Manipulation of volumetric data in a distributed virtual reality environment | Tiff version (422KB) | Composite Tiff image (1MB)
A photo of Jonathan in the lab smiling (1 MB) | Tiff version (12MB) - credit Kristin Johnson, University of Chicago
An amusing picture of Jonathan in the lab | Tiff version (9.5MB) - credit John Easton, University of Chicago Hospitals
A professional headshot of Jonathan (2.9MB) | Tiff version (14.1MB) - credit David Christopher, University of Chicago
Based upon this search on Google Scholar (allintitle: "A 15 year review of esophagectomy for carcinoma of the esophagus and cardia" OR author:"JC Silverstein" OR author:"Jonathan Silverstein"), the h-index for Jonathan C Silverstein was 9 as of September 30, 2008.