Your Recovery Team - Sanford Silverman, M.D.

Sanford M. Silverman, MD, is in private practice as the medical director and CEO of Comprehensive Pain Medicine in Pompano Beach, FL. He has over 22 years of clinical experience.

Summary of Qualifications

Diplomate American Board of Addiction Medicine
Board Certified American Board of Anesthesiology
Certificate of Added Qualifications in Pain Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology
Board Certified American Board of Pain Medicine
Expert Medical Advisor, State of Florida, Workers Compensation Division

Positions/Directorships

President, Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
President Elect, Board of Directors, Broward County Medical Association
Board of Trustees, Broward County Medical Association
Board of Governors, Broward County Commission on Substance Abuse, United Way
Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. Surgery, Division of Anesthesiology, Nova Southeastern University
Voluntary Assistant Professor Medicine, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Chief, Anesthesia and Operative Service, Director Pain Clinic, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Major, Medical Corps, US Army, El Paso, TX July 1990- June 1994
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, TX Sept. 1992- June 1994

Education

Tufts University, BS/MS Chemical Engineering
New York Medical College, MD
Internship- Letterman Army Medical Center
Residency- Brooke Army Medical Center

The author of articles and letters in publications such as Anesthesiology, the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, the Canadian Journal of Anesthesiology and Pain Physician, Dr. Silverman has also lectured nationally on topics including interventional pain management, controlled substance management and addiction issues, prescription drug abuse, and in the area of forensic medicine.

He also provides Independent Medical Evaluations and serves as an expert witness.

Dr Silverman is a member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, the Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia, and the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the Florida Society of Addiction Medicine, the Florida Medical Association, and the Broward County Medical Association.

He also serves on the United Way's Broward County Commission on Substance Abuse, Board of Governors. Dr. Silverman also served on the Broward County Commission's Pain Clinic Task Force, established to determine feasibility of moratoria on pain clinics in the county as well as the creation of a countywide ordinance to regulate such clinics.

Vision
To integrate both pain and addiction treatment and to stop the overuse and over prescribing of pain medications, which have caused a prescription drug epidemic in our country.

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