Jonathan Silverstein, MD, MS

Dr. Silverstein received his bachelor's degree in microbiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his MD from Washington University in St. Louis, and undertook a surgical residency at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's in Chicago. He received a Masters degree in clinical epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, then joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Departments of Surgery and the School of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences. He is currently director of the Center for Clinical Information at University of Chicago Hospitals, Scientific Director of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, and a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab. His nomination notes that he demonstrated the feasibility and value of Tele-Immersive virtual reality for collaborative surgical-anatomic surface and volume visualization, and he was also a key contributor to Cerner's Millenium Physician Order Entry system design and implementation. His election to the College recognizes these diverse and sustained achievements in informatics.