Jack Silversin, DMD, DrPH

Jack Silversin, DMD, DrPH, is a founding partner of Amicus, a highly regarded consulting firm working with many of the nation’s leading physician organizations and hospitals to improve their ability to implement change. For more than 25 years he has helped physician organizations, hospitals and health systems to develop shared vision, strengthen leadership and governance, and improve administration-physician relationships.

He is the thought leader in the healthcare arena regarding physician compacts – informal expectations that have the power to support or derail change efforts. He introduced the construct and has made numerous presentations about its applicability to group practices and hospital-medical staff relationships.

Jack is a regular presenter at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) conferences, faculty for Medical Group Management Association-sponsored executive education programs, and content expert/faculty for the Minneapolis-based Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement’s (ICSI) collaborative project on building a culture of quality.

Jack has worked with many of the most successful, innovative healthcare organizations in the United States including Kaiser-Permanente, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Mayo Clinic Rochester-Mayo Health System as well as a number of academic medical centers and group practices.

In Canada he has consulted to academic medical centers and a British Columbia-based team that is working to enhance the value of primary care medicine. In the UK he has made presentations regarding how to build physician leadership and engagement to support the National Health Service’s (NHS) modernization agenda.

His publications include the book, Leading Physicians Through Change (2000); “Organizations’ Role in Shaping a Modern View of Medical Professionalism” – prepared for the 7^th International Meeting to Improve Quality of Healthcare 2005; and the article “Unhappy Doctors: What are the causes and what can be done?” (with MJ Kornacki and N Edwards, British Medical Journal, published in April of 2002).

Jack received his dental degree and doctorate in Public Health from Harvard where he serves as a member of the Faculty of Medicine.