Christopher P. Silveri, M.D., FAAOS

• Director of the INOVA Spine Institute at Fair Oaks Hospital

Dr. Silveri is an orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in non-operative and operative treatment of spinal disorders. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He also serves as investigator for new osteobiologic bone graft advances in spinal surgery and has been asked to train surgeons nationwide in the FDA approved disc replacement technologies.

His practice accepts patients of all age groups. He treats neck, back, arm and leg pain, numbness, degenerative arthritis of the spine, disc problems, fractures and other spinal trauma, pinched nerves or other nerve injuries, deformity or curvature of the spine, infections, and cancer related illness. Dr. Silveri offers scoliosis screening and treatment for both children and adults, and complex reconstructive care for those patients who have previously undergone surgery.

Dr. Silveri completed undergraduate studies at Georgetown University where he received cum laude honors. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1989 where he received the departmental award for excellence in orthopaedic surgery. He also completed a fellowship year specializing in neurosurgical spinal surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Silveri completed his formal orthopaedic surgical residency training at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. He also completed a fellowship year in Reconstructive Spine and Scoliosis Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Dr. Silveri is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Georgetown University and a clinical instructor with George Washington University Medical Center's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is a past Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery for INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital. Dr. Silveri is a member of the North American Spine Society, The Medical Society of Virginia, Fairfax County Medical Society, and is currently on staff at INOVA Fair Oaks and Fairfax Hospitals, Columbia Reston Hospital, and Prince William Hospital.

He has published numerous articles and has edited and authored a textbook on Spinal Trauma. He is also an Editor on Spine Universe.com, a web site created to educate and inform both the layperson and professional on topics related to the spine. Dr. Silveri has been named in the Washingtonian Magazines list of Top 100 spine surgeons. He is also listed in the Cambridge Who's Who of Professional Medicine-2009 and the Consumer Research Guide to Americas Top Orthopedists-2009.

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