Henry Silver

For the Maryland politician, see Henry A. Silver.
Henry K. Silver
Born1918 (1918)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died1991 (aged 72–73)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California at Berkeley
Known forRussell-Silver syndrome
Physician extender education
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine

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.

  1. ^ Landau, Elizabeth (30 September 2011). "Nurse practitioners were 'Lone Rangers,' founder says - CNN". CNN.