Author
Carl E. Silver, M.D., FACS
Dr. Silver is Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and was chief of Head and Neck Surgery at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. He has published extensively on numerous issues concerning diagnosis and management of head and neck cancer. Dr. Silver has coordinated multi-institutional studies on radiographic diagnosis of cervical metastatic disease, and the efficacy of selective neck dissection. He is best known as author of five books on head and neck cancer. His Surgery for Cancer of the Larynx (New York, Churchill Livingstone 1981) was considered a contemporary classic (Annals of Surgery). Dr. Silver has been guest lecturer and visiting professor at institutions in Australia, Brazil, France, Great Britain, Germany and India, as well as in the United States.