<p> CURRICULUM VITAE</p><p>BARRY DAVID SILVERMAN, M.D.</p><p>OFFICE ADDRESS: Northside Cardiology 960 Johnson Ferry Road Suite 500 Atlanta, GA 30342 (404) 256-2525</p><p>JOB POSITION: Cardiologist, practice established 1973</p><p>MEDICAL SCHOOL: Ohio State University Degree BS/MD 1960-1967</p><p>INTERNSHIP & Vanderbilt University Hospital RESIDENCY: Department of Medicine ` July 1, 1967 to July 1, 1969</p><p>FELLOWSHIP: Johns Hopkins University Hospital Department of Cardiology July 1, 1971- July 1, 1973</p><p>TEACHING APPOINTMENTS: Emory University Department of Medicine (Cardiology) 1973 to present</p><p>MEMBERSHIP ON Vanderbilt University Hospital HOSPITAL STAFFS Nashville, TN Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA Northside Hospital, Atlanta, GA St. Joseph Hospital, Atlanta, GA</p><p>MEMBERSHIPS: American College of Physicians American Heart Association American Medical Association American College of Cardiology Atlanta Medical History Society American Osler Society</p><p>POSITIONS: Director of Cardiology Northside Hospital 1973-2001 Director of Internal Medicine Education 1973-2001 Chairman of Northside Hospital IRB 1999-2001 Editor Medical Association of Atlanta Journal Atlanta Medicine 2000- Chairman education committee “Georgia Chapter American College of Physicians Chairman education committee Georgia Chapter American College of Cardiology in charge of the Annual scientific meeting 2000-2004</p><p>FELLOWSHIP: American College of Physicians American College of Cardiology</p><p>CERTIFIED: American Board of Internal Medicine Medicine 1972; Cardiology 1974</p><p>MILITARY SERVICE: U.S. Public Health Service July 1969- July 1971</p><p>PUBLICATIONS: Graybill, RJ, Silverman, BD “Sulfur Granules (Second Thoughts)” Arch Internal Med 123:430 -432 1969</p><p>Silverman, BD “Treading the Mill” Atl. Med. 29: 15-16 1975</p><p>Silverman, BD, Matthews, O. “Hemodynamic Monitoring with the Swan-Ganz Catheter” Atl Med 49:12 1975</p><p>Silverman, BD, Kozma, G. Silverman, ME, King, S “Echocardiographic Manifestations of Post- Infarction Ventricular Septal Rupture”Chest 68: 778-780 1975</p><p>PUBLICATIONS: Silverman, BD, “Valvular Heart Disease” Chapter in Fourth Edition of the The Heart Editied by J. Willis Hurst,M.D. Published By McGraw Hill Publishing Co. 1974</p><p>Silverman, BD, Silverman, ME, “The Diagnostic Capabilities and Limitations Of the Electrocardiogram” Update I The Heart Edited by J. Willis Hurst, M.D. Published by McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Pp 13-45 1979</p><p>Silverman, BD, “Unstable Angina Pectoris” Hospital Medicine May 1982 pp 32</p><p>Silverman, BD, Carabajal, ND, Chorches, MA “Tricuspid Regurgitation and Acute Myocardial Infarction” Arch Int Med 7:1394-5 1982</p><p>Silverman, BD, Berry, JN, Flowers, C “The Symptom Complex of Mitral Valve Prolapse And Its Association with the DaCosta Syndrome SMA 77,I:27-29 1984</p><p>DiBianco, R, Shabitar, R, Silverman, BD, Leior, C “Oral Amrinone for the Treatment of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure: Results of Multicenter Randomized Double-blinded and Placebo controlled Withdrawl Study J Am Coll Cardiol 1984 4(5):855-66</p><p>Silverman, BD Neeld, J “Evaluation of the Cardiac Patient for Non-Cardiac Surgery J Med Ass GA 73:315-318 1984</p><p>Davis, SG, Silverman, BD “ Hemodynamic Monitoring” Cardiovascular Nursing BodyMind Tapestry C.V. Mosby Unit III Chapter 10: 253- 274</p><p>Silverman, BD, Merrill, A Gerber, L “Amrinone Clinical Effects and Side Effects of Amrinone, </p><p>Arch Int Med 1985 145(5):825-9</p><p>CAST Investigators “Preliminary Report: Effect Encaninide and Flecainide on Mortality in a Randomized Trial of Arrhythmia Suppression After Myocardial Infarction NEJM 1989 321: 406-412</p><p>Silverman, BD Carl J Wiggers-the Inventive Physiologist 1883-1963 Clinical Cardiology 1989 12:731-734</p><p>Silverman, BD Reflex Syncope Current Understanding of the Pathophysiology and Therapies J Med Ass GA 1991 80: 39-43</p><p>Bradford, RH, Shear, CL Chremos, AN and Excel Study investigators Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin (Excel Study Results) Arch Int Med 1991 151:43-49</p><p>Collentine T, Collier, MJ, Crews, T, Davis, W Morris, D, Silverman, BD, Wilmer, C, Wilson Jr, JS, A Stitch in Time for the Heart Attack Patient J Med Ass GA 1995 84:22-26</p><p>Silverman, BD Jean Baptiste Bouillaud Clinical Cardiology 1996 19(10):836-7</p><p>Silverman, BD Mitral Valve Prolapse: Clinical Assessment and Management Strategies Resident and Staff Physician January 1998</p><p>Cohn, JN and Vernarinone Investigators A Dose-Dependent Increase in Mortality with Vesnarinone among Patients with Severe Heart Failure NEJM 1998 339:1810-16</p><p>MERIT INVESTIGATORS STUDIES</p><p>Wikstrand, J, Hialmarson, A, Waagstein, F, Goldstein, S and Merit Investigators Dose Of metoprolol CR/XL and clinical outcomes in Patients with heart failure: analysis of the Experience in metoprolol CR/XL randomized Intervention trial in Chronic heart failure J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40:(3)491-8 Wikstrand J, Hjalmarson A, Waagstein F, Fagerberg B, Goldstein S, KjekshusJ, Wedel H. Dose of metoprolol CR/XL and clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure:analysis of the experience in metoprolol CR/XL randomized intervention trial in chronic heart failure (MERIT-HF).J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002 Aug 7;40(3):491-8.</p><p>Goldstein S, Fagerberg B, Hjalmarson A, Waagstein F, Wedel H, Wikstrand J. Metoprolol controlled release/extended release in patients with severe heart failure: analysis of the experience in the MERIT-HF study.J Am Coll Cardiol. 2001 Oct;38(4):932-8.</p><p>Ghali JK, Pina IL, Gottlieb SS, Deedwania PC, Wikstrand JC. Metoprolol CR/XL in female patients with heart failure: analysis of the experience in Metoprolol Extended-Release Randomized Intervention Trial in HeartFailure (MERIT-HF). Circulation. 2002 Apr 2;105(13):1585-91.</p><p>Effect of metoprolol CR/XL in chronic heart failure: Metoprolol CR/XL Randomised Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)Lancet.1999 Jun 12;353(9169):2001-7.</p><p>Goldstein S, Hjalmarson A. The mortality effect of metoprolol CR/XL in patients with heart failure: resultsof the MERIT-HF Trial. Clin Cardiol. 1999 Oct;22 Suppl 5:V30-5.</p><p>Hjalmarson A, Goldstein S, Fagerberg B, Wedel H, Waagstein F, Kjekshus J,Wikstrand J, El Allaf D, And MERIT Investigators Effects of controlled-release metoprolol on total mortality, hospitalizations,and well-being in patients with heart failure: the Metoprolol CR/X Randomized Intervention Trial in congestive heart failure (MERIT-HF). MERIT-HF Study Group. JAMA. 2000 Mar 8;283(10):1295-302.</p><p>Gottlieb SS, Fisher ML, Kjekshus J, Deedwania P, Gullestad L, Vitovec J Wikstrand J. Tolerability of beta-blocker initiation and titration in the Metoprolol CR/XL Randomized Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF). Circulation. 2002 Mar 12;105(10):1182-8.</p><p>Silverman, BD Safety and Benefits of transferring patients with Acute MI to interventional Center for Immediate PCI J Am Coll Card letter to editor 2003 41(3):518 </p>