Senior IRB Chair
Mass General Brigham
Benjamin C. Silverman, M.D. is the Senior IRB Chair at Mass General Brigham, Human Research Affairs. Additionally, Dr. Silverman is currently the Chair of the Mass General Brigham Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (ESCRO) Committee, Director of Ethics for the Institute for Technology in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, and at Harvard Medical School, serves as an Instructor in Psychiatry and a Faculty Member in the Center for Bioethics. Dr. Silverman received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, completed his psychiatry residency at the MGH McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training program, and completed sub-specialty fellowship training in addiction psychiatry through Mass General Brigham.