Silas Norman, M.D., M.P.H., is a transplant nephrologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine. Dr Norman serves as the Associate Transplant Program Director and the Co-Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation for University of Michigan Health. He also serves as the Medical Director of the Transplant Center Ambulatory Care Unit. Dr. Norman received his medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1996 and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in 1999. Dr. Norman returned to the University of Michigan and completed his nephrology and transplant nephrology training in 2003. Dr. Norman subsequently completed a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan in 2010. Dr. Norman’s research is focused on reducing health disparities in kidney transplantation and the evaluation of medical frailty.
He is the current Chair of the Detroit Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) Foundation and incoming Chair of the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan’s Board of Directors.
