Dr. Mark E. Silverman (1939-2008) was an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Emory University and the Chief of Cardiology at the Fuqua Heart Center at Piedmont Hospital. His major interests lay in the practice of consultative cardiology and in teaching the art of bedside cardiology and the history of medicine. He is the past President of the Georgia Heart Association and the American Osler Society, Governor for the Georgia Chapter of the American College of Physicians, and coeditor of British Cardiology in the 20th Century, J. Willis Hurst: His Life and Teachings and The Quotable Osler.
Care more particularly for the individual
patient than for the special features of the disease.
– Sir William Osler
Dr. Silverman passed away on November 12, 2008, and will be sorely missed by the many people whose lives he touched.