Dr. Silver is a fellow and past-president of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. He is a Diplomat in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS), and is chair of their committee that developed the first certification examination. Silver is also a member of the examination committee for the newly approved specialty “Brain Injury Medicine” by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). Dr. Silver is associate editor of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Journal Watch Psychiatry, and psychiatry section editor for UpToDate. He has been listed in “Best Doctors in America” since 1992 in the area of neuropsychiatry and received the award for “Innovative Clinical Treatment” from the North American Brain Injury Society.

Disclosures:

Within the last 24 months, have you rendered, or in the next two years, will you render clinical services or support services (whether diagnostic, therapeutic, educational, case management, or similar) to persons with TBI or their family members and caregivers, as an independent professional or employee of a for-profit or not-for-profit organization?: Private practice of neuropsychiatry

Within the past 24 months, I or one of my “immediate family members” received personal compensation for the following: Associate editor, NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry, Up To Date; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and clinical neuroscience; Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and Psychiatry; Royalties from Textbook of Traumatic brain injury

Within the past 24 months and during the three-year course of the project under consideration, I or one of my immediate family members received or will receive financial or material research support or compensation from the following: Chair of DSMB for 2 NIDRR funded studies

Do you have one or more significant nonfinancial competing interests?: Board member, North American Brain Injury Society; Member, mild TBI special interest group, ACRM; but don’t think these are competing interests