Dr. Noah Silverberg completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology specialty track) from the University of Windsor and a clinical internship at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Consortium in 2007.
Before joining the UBC Department of Psychology in 2020, Dr. Silverberg worked as a staff psychologist at British Columbia’s tertiary rehabilitation hospital (GF Strong Rehab Centre) for over 10 years, where he also led an interdisciplinary brain injury research program as a clinician-scientist. In 2015-2016, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program for military service members and veterans.
Dr. Silverberg is a registrant of the College of Psychologists of British Columbia and board-certified in clinical neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP-CN).
His other roles and affiliations include:
- Principal Investigator, Rehabilitation Research Program, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
- Associate Member, Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
- Co-Director, Clinical Outcomes for Brain Research – Assessment Hub (COBRAH)
- Member, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
- Chair, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Task Force on Mild TBI
- Member, Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium (CTRC)
- Scientific Advisory Committee, Brain Injury Canada
- Club neuropsychologist, Vancouver Canucks (National Hockey League Protocol for Concussion Evaluation and Management)
Media:
- Navigating Neuropsychology podcast, episode #146
- Brain Injury & Repair Integrated Research Program, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
- Invited lecture on Functional cognitive disorder after head injury, 5th international conference on Functional Neurological Disorder (Verona, Italy, 2024)
- RehabCast, the audio hub for rehabilitation medicine produced by the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, episode #47
- CBC news coverage of the new ACRM diagnostic criteria for mild traumatic brain injury
- Keynote lecture on “Psychological determinants of concussion recovery” at the 2022 annual meeting of the Canadian Concussion Network/Réseau Canadien des Commotions (CCN-RCC)
- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Visiting Scholar Lecture on “Fear avoidance behavior after concussion”