Mark Silverberg, MD

Mark Silverberg, MD, is an attending physician at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. He has spent more than two decades in that prestigious institution starting with medical school in 1993. After completing his emergency medicine (EM) residency at Kings County Hospital, he stayed on to join the faculty as well. He then began his academic career at SUNY Downstate as the Director of Student Education, but soon became the Assistant Residency Director and then the Associate Residency Director. With COVID-19 looming in the background, he held the title of Director of Disaster Preparedness for the Emergency Department. Dr. Silverberg has also joined the EM lecture circuit and combines his love of scuba diving and underwater photography with EM. Dr. Silverberg also heads the wilderness medicine division of the Emergency Medicine Department at Kings County Hospital.