Eric Silfen

Eric Silfen, MD, MSHA, MA is a physician executive and biomedical informatician who has most recently architected and managed Medical Affairs in a Fortune 500 multinational company. As a start-up visionary for numerous medical initiatives, he possesses an engaging, participatory leadership style that creates tangible, financially viable, sustainable programs that have exceeded customer and business expectations.

Currently, Dr. Silfen serves as the principal for MedTech Analytics, LLC, a privately held firm that empowers medical affairs organizations within the medtech, biotech and pharma industries to accelerate market adoption of their company’s products, services and solutions through thought leadership, clinical innovation management, market intelligence and health knowledge management.

Most recently, Dr. Silfen was Senior Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer for Philips Healthcare where he was responsible for establishing a medical consciousness throughout the company. In this role, he worked closely with R&D groups to develop and evaluate biophysiological patient monitoring devices for hospital and remote home use. In addition, he devised methods for demonstrating the clinical and econometric evidence that commercially differentiated Philips Healthcare’s products, services and solutions, thereby supporting Philips’ commitment to personal health and well-being.

Professionally, Dr. Silfen is board-certified in emergency medicine and internal medicine. He received his medical degree and training from Georgetown University; his MSHA from the Medical College of Virginia; and, his MA in biomedical informatics from Columbia University. He has served as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University; as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration at the Medical College of Virginia; and, as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital.

He has published widely on such topics as clinical emergency diagnosis and therapy, health policy and hospital management, biomedical information systems and clinical decision support as well as actively contributes to a Huffington Post healthcare blog.