Michael Silbermann (Hebrew: מיכאל זילברמן) is an Israeli maxillofacial surgeon and health educator.

[1] Silbermann was born on January 19, 1935, in the old quarters of the Arab city of Acre then part of Mandatory Palestine under British administration.

[3] After completing his Ph.D. at Tufts University (under Jack Fromer and Larry Cavazos), he joined a new medical school at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa).

[4] After serving for 20 years as chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the Technion's Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, and 10 years as director of the Laboratory for Musculoskeletal Research, he was elected dean of the Technion's Faculty of Medicine.

Upon completing his tenure as dean, he was appointed Chief Scientist of the Israel Ministry of Health in Jerusalem, starting January 1993.