Richard T. Silver MD

Richard T. Silver, M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Attending Physician and Emeritus Director of the Richard T. Silver M.D. Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Center at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is also Medical Director, The Cancer Research and Treatment Fund, Inc.; past President and current Member of the Board of Directors, New York State Society of Medical Oncologists and Hematologists; past President and currently Senior Advisor, Weill Cornell Medical College, Alumni Association, Life Member, Cornell University Council.

Dr. Silver received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. He completed an internship in medicine and a residency in medicine (hematology) at The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. He was a Clinical Associate in the Leukemia Service of the General Medicine Branch at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. Afterward, he served as a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. He then returned to The New York -Weill Cornell Medical Center where he has remained.