Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #120570

Victor W. Sidel, MD, Albert Einstein Medical College and Montefiore Medical Center, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, New York, NY 10467, 718 920-6586, VSIDEL@montefiore.org and Oliver Fein, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, Box 572, New York, NY 10021.

Dr. George Silver was one of the pillars of “social medicine” in the United States. From his 15-year work as Director of the Division of Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital to his service starting in 1965 as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where he was one of the architects of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, Dr. Silver was a powerful advocate of education, research and practice in social medicine. In 1969 he was named Professor of Public Health at Yale's School of Public Health, where he was known as an outstanding teacher. This session will be devoted to a celebration of the many facets of the life of George Silver, with comments from Oliver Fein, Bernard Guyer, William Kissick, Barbara Krimgold, Philip Lee, Max Pepper, Susan Reverby, Victor Sidel, Jane Silver, Sidney Wolfe and others.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to

• Understand the importance of “social medicine;”
• Appreciate the role of Dr. George Silver in shaping “ social medicine” in the United States;
• Understand the role of medical care in public health.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.