Dr. Edward B Silberstein M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | In Vivo & In Vitro Nuclear Medicine
234 Goodman St G026 Mont Reid Pavil Cincinnati OH, 45219Rating
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About
Dr. Edward Silberstein practices Nuclear Medicine in Cincinnati, OH. Dr. Silberstein uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1962
Harvard Med Sch 1962
Harvard Medical School 1962
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hematology
Nuclear MedicineAmerican Board of Nuclear MedicineABNM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology
OtolaryngologyAmerican Board of OtolaryngologyABOto- 1968
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Dr. Edward B Silberstein M.D.'s Expert Contributions
What do you do if you get cleaning products in your eyes?
That question goes to the Emergency Room or Poison Center. Of course, at once start using large amounts of water to wash out the eyes. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Is nuclear medicine involved in COVID-19 research?
Our involvement in finding the effects of the virus before severe symptoms occur is in scanning the lung, brain, and kidneys; we can find physiologic abnormalities before anatomic tests like MRI and CT can see the disease, according to preliminary studies. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
How is diagnostic imaging used in nuclear medicine?
First, nuclear medicine is employed in diagnostic imaging and in internal radiation therapy, the latter usually for cancers. Diagnostic radiology includes both CT (computed tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans, which often give better anatomic resolution than Nuclear Medicine usually does. However, Nuclear Medicine gives functional information (for example, finding cancer cells with special chemicals on their surfaces) not seen with CT and MRI. So combined with the CT or MRI, Nuclear Medicine techniques find, for example, more prostate cancer than any of the techniques mentioned alone. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
How dangerous are nuclear weapons?
In storage, there is minimal radiation escaping from these weapons. But they are designed to explode on target and kill hundreds or thousands. These have NOTHING to do with nuclear medicine in design or usage! Sincerely, Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Is nuclear medicine used in wars?
No, never. This has nothing to do with bombs and weapons. We diagnose and treat medical conditions with small amounts of radioactive materials. Nuclear medicine has NOTHING to do with war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Do you need to wear PPE when practicing nuclear medicine?
Yes! Anyone coming within 6 feet of a patient with COVID-19 must have PPE! Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Do nuclear medicine specialists work with radiologists?
Yes! Many are radiologists, in fact. One must know how to read CT and MRI studies to correlate with the nuclear images. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
How does a nuclear medicine technologist differ from a doctor?
Huge difference. The technologist has 2-4 years of training after high school. The Nuclear Med doc, unlike the tech, can read the scans, diagnose and treat patients, and has had 12 years training beyond high school. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Is PPE limited in nuclear medicine?
No, it is needed in dealing with all patients. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
How does nuclear medicine react to viruses?
Nuclear medicine has no therapeutic answer to viruses. The amount to "kill" or inactivate a virus is enormous, many thousands of times greater than is employed in any form of medical radiation. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Is nuclear medicine testing halted by the coronavirus?
Nuclear Medicine diagnostic imaging continues for emergencies! READ MORE
What toxic sprays can kill the coronavirus?
Any commercial spray used to disinfect tables, toilets, etc., will do, but little research is available on this at this time. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Is nuclear medicine toxic to the lungs?
No, never...UNLESS (to be absolutely complete in this answer): One makes the now unheard of mistake of treating thyroid cancer which has spread to the lungs with too high a dose of a specific radioactive material. (That is NOT lung cancer, but thyroid cancer metastatic to the lungs!). We always prevent that by easily measuring the safe dose to be delivered before giving it. We teach that to every doctor learning Nuclear Medicine, supervise these therapies the doctor-in-training performs, and test him/her for this knowledge before allowing that doctor to practice Nuclear Medicine! I doubt there are any Nuclear Medicine practitioners in the U.S. who do not understand this. We have known this since the 1960's, and we test for this safety information easily and safely on all such patients before treatment. Very large amounts of external beam radiation (coming from equipment producing focused radiation outside the body for killing cancer) are carefully aimed at the cancer inside the body, so as not to produce significant normal organ damage. This external beam radiation not what Nuclear Medicine does. Radiation oncologists do this. In the specialty of Nuclear Medicine, we administer, by mouth, artery or vein, cancer-specific radioactive treating drugs (specific for their cancer targets inside the body), giving no harmful radiation to the healthy lungs or rest of the body! Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Can nuclear medicine combat viruses?
No, it would require amounts of radiation HUNDREDS OR thousands of times higher than used for diagnosis and therapy in Nuclear Medicine. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Is it safe to be working in nuclear medicine with the coronavirus?
If you are an asymptomatic carrier, you must NOT WORK in a hospital, but self-quarantine at once. You can give the disease to someone over 80 where up to 14% die!!! Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
What types of masks are used for handing nuclear waste?
Any materials to be shipped which are radioactive must be shipped in containers regulated by the Dept of Transportation so that nothing escapes into the environment to be inhaled. READ MORE
Does exposure to nuclear medicine affect your oral health?
Absolutely not! The radiation the nuclear medicine worker receives is in such a small quantity that it has no biological effects. Nor does the natural radiation we receive from cosmic rays, radon, etc. READ MORE
What major in college do you choose for nuclear medicine?
To be a nuclear medicine physician be sure to take at least introductory physics and chemistry, but get a liberal education, as you will be immersed in medicine intensely until your late 20's at least, and probably much longer. For nuclear med. technology there are good programs, including mine at the University of Cincinnati. Check it out at cahs.uc.edu. You may be called on to perform ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging also, at many hospitals today, so be sure you learn how to do all these. Sincerely, Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. Eugene L. and Sue R. Saenger Professor of Radiological Health and Medicine, Emeritus silbereb@uc.edu
What college courses do you take for nuclear medicine?
Physics will help, but you need a Nuclear Medicine/imaging curriculum as you may be asked to employ CT, MRI ultrasound, etc., equipment in the really good hospitals. The University of Cincinnati has such a program. Good luck! READ MORE
When was nuclear medicine created?
Some suggest it came with the invention of the cyclotron in 1933 by Ernest Lawrence, which made radioactive phosphorus-32 to treat certain blood conditions. Others suggest it was 1928 when Hermann Blumgart in Boston used radioactive sodium to measure heart function. From 1941-1945 radioactive iodine was employed to measure thyroid function, cure overactive thyroid conditions and finally to cure thyroid cancer. The Society of Nuclear Medicine met for the first time about 1958 and the first Board exam in Nuclear Medicine occurred in 1972, sponsored by the older specialties of Medicine, Radiology, and Pathology. Edward B. Silberstein, M.A., M.D. READ MORE
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Radiopharmaceutical issues.
- EANM procedure guidelines for treatment of refractory metastatic bone pain.
- Radiopharmaceuticals for the palliation of painful bone metastases.
- Teletherapy and radiopharmaceutical therapy of painful bone metastases.
- The US national isotope program: current status and strategy for future success.
- Radioiodine therapy and pregnancy.
- Comparison of outcomes after (123)I versus (131)I pre-ablation imaging before radioiodine ablation in differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
- Reducing the incidence of 131I-induced sialadenitis: the role of pilocarpine.
- A closer look at the latest NRC patient release guidance.
- Clinical trials and socioeconomic implication in the treatment of bone metastasis: a report from the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria Expert Panel on Radiation Oncology.
- The problem of the patient with thyroglobulin elevation but negative iodine scintigraphy: the TENIS syndrome.
- The SNM practice guideline for somatostatin receptor scintigraphy 2.0.
- Radioiodine: the classic theranostic agent.
- An alpha edge?
- The timing of pregnancy testing in 131I therapy.
Treatments
- Medical Imaging
- Melanoma
- Breast Cancer
- Thyroid Cancer
Fellowships
- New England Medical Center - Boston, MA
Experience & Accolades
- Professor 1977to Present, Radiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
- Professor 1983 to Present, Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
- Professor 2001 to Present, Emeritus of Radiology and Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cinci
- Member1968 to Present, Attending Physician in Medicine and Radiology and Clinician in Radiology and Medicine,
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