Gerard Silvestri
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center
Office
(843) 792-9200
86 Jonathan Lucas Street Charleston, SC 29425
Primary Specialty
Oncologist
Practice
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center
Gender
Male
Education
St. George's University
Training
Hospital of Saint Raphael, Hospital of Saint Raphael, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
Certification
SC, SC-16693, CT, CT-30290, VT, VT-042.0008611, SC-BS3731646, SC-2016693, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine-129974, Not Board Certified, ACLS, ACLS-, BLS, BLS-
Payment Options
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About
Gerard Silvestri
Dr. Gerard Silvestri is a professor of medicine and a lung cancer pulmonologist at the Medical University of South Carolina with a career dedicated to the evaluation, management and improvement of outcomes of patients with this most common of malignancies. He completed his undergraduate education at Fairleigh Dickinson University, his medical degree at St. Georges University, a residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of St. Raphaels/Yale University School of Medicine and fellowship training at Dartmouth. He has an advanced degree in health services research, also from Dartmouth.Dr. Silvestri began the first multidisciplinary lung cancer clinic in South Carolina, and now evaluates between five and seven new lung cancers per week. His clinical research is patient-oriented and directed towards nearly every aspect of lung cancer care. He has experience in evaluating new technologies for the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer and was the part of the first group to publish the utility of endoscopic ultrasound with fine needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph nodes to stage lung cancer patients. Dr. Silvestri has been a section editor and author of the American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based guidelines on the diagnosis and management of lung cancer. To date, he has over 200 peer-reviewed journal publications, abstracts, book chapters and invited commentaries in clinical care and research of lung cancer. He has lectured as a master clinician in lung cancer for both the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and has served as chair of the Thoracic Oncology Network of the ACCP.Services
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center provides oncology services in Charleston, SC. Oncology includes the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer, and many other forms of cancer.Contact Gerard Silvestri at (843) 792-9200 for specific information about cancer treatment in Charleston, SC.
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