Henry Silver
American physician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Maryland politician, see Henry A. Silver.
Henry K. Silver (1918–1991) was an American pediatrician who influenced the early development of the physician assistant and nurse practitioner roles in the United States. Silver co-created the nation's first pediatric nurse practitioner education program in the 1960s along with Nurse Educator Loretta Ford,[1] and he helped establish a pediatric physician assistant program a few years later. In his later career, Silver studied and published on the abuse of medical students by physicians.
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Henry K. Silver | |
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Born | 1918 (1918) |
Died | 1991 (aged 72–73) Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of California at Berkeley |
Known for | Russell-Silver syndrome Physician extender education |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Medicine |
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