Gerard A. Silvestri

Dr. Gerard Silvestri is the Hillenbrand Professor of Thoracic Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He completed his training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and received an additional degree in health services research, both at Dartmouth. He is widely regarded as an international expert in lung cancer. His research includes screening for lung cancer, lung nodule evaluation, diagnosis and staging of lung cancer, development of biomarkers for disease risk and treatment, and disparities in delivering lung cancer care to underserved communities. Dr. Silvestri is a writer and editor of the American College of Chest Physicians lung cancer guidelines. He has authored more than 280 scientific articles, book chapters and editorials. He has served on multiple editorial boards and currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Chest. Dr. Silvestri is past president of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), a society serving 20,000 chest physicians worldwide. He currently serves on the steering committee of the American Cancer Society’s National Lung Cancer Roundtable. Dr. Silvestri was the recipient of the 2020 lifetime achievement award in Lung Cancer from the American Thoracic Society. In 2022, Dr. Silvestri was named a Master Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, a distinction awarded to only 40 members in the nearly 90 years of that organization’s existence.