Frank Silver

Dr. Silver, MD, MSc. is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Neurology at the University of Toronto. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1978 and completed a Neurology residency in Toronto in 1983. After a two-year fellowship at the Cerebrovascular Research Centre at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Dr. Silver returned to Toronto to be on staff at the Toronto General Hospital.

Dr. Silver was the Medical Director of the Toronto West Stroke Network and head of the Stroke Program at the Toronto Western Hospital from 2001 - 2018. He is an Affiliate Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Dr. Silver’s academic interests are aimed at improving stroke care through clinical research and improving stroke care delivery.

He has participated in and been involved in the implementation of many of the seminal clinical trials in stroke management. Dr. Silver played a key role in the development of the current system of regional stroke care in Ontario. He was a past board member of the Canadian Stroke Consortium, and he was the theme leader for Optimizing Acute Stroke Care in the Canadian Stroke Network.

He was the founding principal investigator of the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network and co-principal investigator of the Ontario Stroke Registry. Dr. Silver established the Ontario Telestroke Program in 2002 and remains its Medical Director. He received the Order of Ontario 2022 for his work on Telestroke.