EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS //

GENERAL BOARD CERTIFICATION:

Obstetrics and Gynecology - American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

1998-present

SUBSPECIALTY BOARD CERTIFICATION:

Maternal Fetal Medicine - American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

2000-present

FELLOWSHIP:

Maternal Fetal Medicine - Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA)

1994-1996

RESIDENCY:

Obstetrics & Gynecology - Long Island Jewish Medical Center (New Hyde Park, New York)

1990-1994

INTERNSHIP:

Internal Medicine - Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, New York)

1989-1990

MEDICAL SCHOOL:

Doctor of Medicine - Yeshiva University - Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, New York)

1985-1989

UNDERGRADUATE:

Bachelors of Arts, Biology - Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)

1981-1985

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

•  American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

•  American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

•  Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine

•  American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine

•  The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology

•  California Department of Public Health: Prenatal Screening Program

•  Nuchal Translucency Quality Review Program

•  The Fetal Medicine Foundation

•  American Medical Association

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS:

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,  Los Angeles, California

Providence Saint John’s Health Center, Santa Monica, California

Dignity Health – California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

PUBLICATIONS:

Resolution of Hydrops Fetalis Despite Persistent Fetal Tachycardia Silver, LE, Platt, LD, Santulli, TV, and Carlson, DE, J Ultrasound Medicine, 20(10), 1141-1145(2001).

Fetal Growth Restriction is Accompanied by Congenital Oligonephropathy Silver, LE, Descamps, P, Castro,L, Korst, L, and Platt, LD. Am Jnl Obstet Gynecol.  In press.  Abstract presented at Seventh World Congress of International Society on Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology.  Washington, D.C., October, 1997.

Placenta Previa Percreta with Bladder Involvement: New Considerations and Review of the Literature Silver, LE, Hobel, CJ, Lagasse, L, Luttrull, JW, and Platt, LD.  Ultrasound Obstet & Gynecol, 9(2), 131-138 (1997). 

Is Human Papillomavirus-Related Disease an Independent Risk Factor for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection  Spitzer, M, Brennessel, D, Seltzer, VL, Silver, L, and Lox, MS.  Gynecologic Oncology, 49, 243-246(1993).  Abstract presented at the Eighth World Congress of International Federation on Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, Tucson, AZ, March 1993.