Dr. Silver is a native of Washington, D.C. where received his doctoral degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Silver came to Cleveland in 1993 specifically to join the large group of tuberculosis researchers at CWRU and has been a member of the faculty of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine since 1995.
Dr. Silver's research has been sponsored by the Francis Family Foundation, the American Lung Association and American Thoracic Society, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, and the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs Office of Research and Development. His findings have been published in the official journals of the American Association of Immunologists, the American Society for Microbiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Thoracic Society.