Jonathan Silverstein

Research

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.