Dr. Silvestri is the George Sr. and Margaret Hillenbrand Professor of Thoracic Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is widely regarded as an international expert in lung cancer and procedures related to management of the disease. His research includes screening for lung cancer, lung nodule evaluation, diagnosis and staging of lung cancer, and technology assessment.
Dr. Silvestri is a writer and editor of the American College of Chest Physicians lung cancer guidelines. He is a past president of the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology. Dr. Silvestri has authored more than 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and editorials. He has served on multiple editorial boards of medical journals and currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Chest. Dr. Silvestri was the president of the American College of Chest Physicians in 2017. He currently serves on the steering committee of the National Lung Cancer Roundtable.
Dr. Silvestri completed his training in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Dartmouth. He has an advanced degree in the evaluative clinical sciences, also from Dartmouth.