Silas P. Norman, M.D., is clinical assistant professor of nephrology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

He currently is a member of both the OPTN/UNOS minority affairs and kidney transplantation committees, previously serving on the latter's kidney paired donation work group.

In addition to his OPTN/UNOS service, he is a member of the scientific advisory board of both the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) of Michigan and the Gift of Life Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP). He also is president of the National Medical Association's Ann Arbor chapter and a member of the NKF-Michigan /Michigan Department of Community Health's expert committee on hypertension/chronic kidney disease prevention and treatment.

He earned a medical degree at Wayne State University in Detroit.