Edwin K. Silverman
Elite in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Dr. Edwin K. Silverman

Intensive Care Medicine
181 Longwood Avenue, Brigham And Women's Hospital Channing Laboratory, 
Boston, MA 

Elite in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
181 Longwood Avenue, Brigham And Women's Hospital Channing Laboratory, 
Boston, MA 
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Overview

Dr. Edwin Kepner Silverman is chief of the Channing Division of Network Medicine and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.He received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine. He then completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary disease at BWH. He is board certified in critical care medicine and pulmonary medicine.Dr. Silverman’s clinical interests include alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He has served as a principal investigator of multiple COPD genetics studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, including the NETT Genetics Ancillary Study, the Transcontinental COPD Genetics Study, the Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Genetic Modifiers Study and the COPDGene Study. His research uses a variety of genetic analysis approaches to investigate the genetic influences of complex lung diseases, including integrative genomics, linkage analysis, familial aggregation analysis, rare variant analysis and epigenetic studies. He has authored over 320 peer-reviewed publications and is the recipient of the BWH Kenneth L. Baughman Faculty Mentoring Award.

Dr. Silverman is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). His top areas of expertise are Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Emphysema, Bronchitis, and Pulmonary Fibrosis.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 509 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 368 articles in the study of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Graduate Institution
Washington University, 1983 - 1990
Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1990 - 1993
Specialties
Intensive Care Medicine
Licenses
Internal Medicine in MA
Fellowships
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1993 - 1996
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Male

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Locations

181 Longwood Avenue, Brigham And Women's Hospital Channing Laboratory, Boston, MA 02115
Call: 617-525-0845

Additional Areas of Focus

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Emphysema

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


507 Total Publications

Multi-Trait Polygenic Scores for COPD and COPD Exacerbations Implicate Druggable Proteins.
Multi-Trait Polygenic Scores for COPD and COPD Exacerbations Implicate Druggable Proteins.
Journal: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Published: September 05, 2025
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  • Acute Interstitial Pneumonia
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  • Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD)
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  • Pulmonary Fibrosis
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  • Subcutaneous Emphysema
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  • Rheumatoid Lung Disease
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  • Asthma in Children
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  • Bronchiectasis
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  • Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia
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  • Eosinophilic Asthma
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