RESUME
Assistant Program Director (Affiliate)
Emergency Medicine Residency
Stanford University School of Medicine
10/2020-current
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Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliate)
Stanford University School of Medicine
10/2019-current
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Attending Physician
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara
04/2018-current
Employee of the month 02/2020
Physician of the month 06/2019, 10/2021
Deputy Editor in Chief
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
10/2019-10/2020
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Contributing Orthopedics Editor
Dynamed Plus
11/2015-10/2020
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Attending Physician
Site Clerkship Director
SCOPE Physician Liaison
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
09/2018-09/2019
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Adjunct Faculty
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
09/2017-07/2018
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Attending Physician
Sibley Memorial Hospital
08/2016-03/2018
Employment

Special Interests
Arts and crafts aficionado
Long walker
Novice swimmer
Expert in the use and reuse of Rotisserie Chicken
Reader of many books, including cheesy science fiction starring strong female heroines

Languages
Spanish-proficient
Education
Emergency Medicine at University of California, San Francisco
​07/2012 - 07/2016
Recipient of the SD award
2014-2015 Outstanding Resident Medical Student Educator Award
2015-2016 UCSF Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Medical Education Award.
Area of Distinction and Pathways program completion in Medical Education
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MD at Stanford University School of Medicine
08/2008 - 06/2012
Recipient of Kolos, McIvor, and Robert M Ferguson scholarships
Recipient of Stanford Medical Scholar Award
Business Administrative Intern at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
05/2009-08/2009
Built and coded physician dashboard for assessing metrics in medical management of chronic diabetics.
BA in Biology at Washington University in St Louis
06/2003 - 04/2007
Honors: 3.93 GPA
Recipient of Ramirez and Olonzo y Losada scholarships
Phi Beta Kappa
Speaking Engagements​
American College of Emergency Physicians 2018-present
Diagnostic Dilemma: Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy (2024, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Use or Abuse: Pediatric Fractures & Their Causes (2022, San Francisco, California)
No Room for Error: Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy (2022, San Francisco, California))
Stop the Belly-Aching: Pearls & Pitfalls in the Care of Older Adults with Abdominal Pain (2021, Boston, Massachusetts)
Important Soft Tissue Injuries: It's Not All About the Bones (2021, Boston, Massachusetts)
EsophaGOOSE: Boerhaaves and other esophageal emergencies (2019, Denver, Colorado)
Don’t Ovary Act: Vaginal bleeding in the nonpregnant patient (2019, Denver, Colorado)
Lost in Translation: 15 minutes could save you a lifetime (2018, San Diego, California)
Kaiser Santa Clara Continuing Medical Education, Santa Clara, California January 2020-present Own your Zone: Pigtail and Chest Tube Management (2024)
Code Brown: Billing and coding updates in 2023 (2023)
Use or Abuse: Pediatric Fractures and Their Causes (2022)
Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy (2022)
Exotic fevers: think zebras (2019)
Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency, Stanford, California January 2019-present
Sleep and Self Reflection (2023)
Get it off your chest: Topics in chest x-ray (2022-present)
No bones about it: musculoskeletal radiology (2022-present)
Sleep, Drugs, and Rock and Roll (2022)
Are you smarter than Sundeep Bhat in-service training examination prep (2020-present)
Kaiser R4 orientation (2020-present)
Sleep training and Self-Soothing (2021)
Orthopedic Hors D’oeuvres (2021- present)
Community Perspectives Panel (2020)
Critical Care Transfers (2020-present)
Billing and Coding (2020-present)
Heart failure and left ventricular assist devices (2020)
The febrile traveler board game (2019)
You give me Fever: Small groups(2019)
Sepsis choose your own adventure (2019)
Essentials of Emergency Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada May 2019
Interview collaborations for Jeff Perry, Nate Kupperman,
Barbra Backus, and Glauckomflecken interviews
ERCAST, Virtual December 2018-Mar 2020
Neurologic Emergencies in Pregnancy
Bits and Pieces
Pregaming: preparing for work
Death by Disimpaction
UCSF + SFGH Emergency Medicine Residency, San Francisco, California June 2018-March 2020
Cardiovascular Emergencies In the Community
Upper Extremity Orthopedic Injuries
L+D in the ED: Medical Evaluation Of the Pregnant Patient
Vag Bleed Upreg Neg Choose Your Own Adventure
Should’a-Orthopedic Injuries to the Clavicle and Shoulder
Emergency Medicine Review and Perspectives, virtual January 2018
Updates in Orthopedic Imaging
DC Fire and EMS Grand Rounds, Washington DC Mar-September 2017
Large Vessel Occlusions Start at Home
Sepsis in the Field
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California February 2016
Toxicology Toons
Publications
Silverio L, Rider AC. Not so Soporific: 3 Years of Stimulating Sleep Curricula. Poster presented at Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) Academic Assembly. March 3, 2025. Seattle, Washington
Rider AC, Ravi S, Roszczynialski K, Preiksaitis C, Alvarez A, Silverio L Charting New Waters: Navigating Resident Quality Improvement Curriculum Using Documentation Review. Poster presented at Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) Academic Assembly. March 26, 2024. New Orleans, Louisiana
Klingman L, Silverio L, Harp A. Medical Humanities: A Novel Residency Curriculum. Poster presented at Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) Academic Assembly. March 24, 2023. Las Vegas, Nevada
Beck A, Silverio L, Smith J. Thoracic-Respiratory Disorders, McGraw Hill Specialty Board Review Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine Examination and Board Review, Promes SB (ed). New York: McGraw Hill; 2023: pp. 57-76.
Klingman L, Silverio L, Krzyzaniak S. Elective Healing: Medical Humanities Electives in an Emergency Medicine Residency. Poster Presentation, Stanford School of Medicine Education Day 5/21/2022. Stanford, California.
Masters M, Chicharoen N, Silverio L, Gautreau M. No Hospital is an Island: Improving Disaster Management Education with a Shared Tabletop Exercise Between Regional Health Systems. Innovations in EMS Education. National Association of EMS Annual Meeting. January, 2022. San Diego, California.
Alvarez A, Caretta-Weyer H, Gallegos M, Kanapicki J, Rider A, Silverio L, Urdaneta A, Velasquez B, Washington T, Krzyzaniak S. Holistic Review and #Match2021: Aligning Screening with Institutional Mission, Vision, and Values. Innovation Abstracts. CORD 2021 Virtual Academic Assembly. April 12, 2021.
Alvarez A, Caretta-Weyer H, Gallegos M, Kanapicki J, Rider A, Silverio L, Urdaneta A, Velasquez B, Washington T, Krzyzaniak S. Holistic Review in EM Residency and #Match2021: Aligning Screening with Institutional Mission, Vision, and Values. Lightning Oral Abstracts. SAEM21 Virtual Meeting. May 13, 2021.
Silverio L. Author “How I Work Smarter.” Academic Life in Emergency Medicine. November 20, 2020. https://www.aliem.com/how-i-work-smarter-luz-silverio-md/
Silverio L, Lin M, Nagappan BS, Schegg T. Authors. “Trick of the Trade: Face mask hacks.” Academic Life in Emergency Medicine. April 1, 2020. https://www.aliem.com/trick-of-trade-face-mask-hacks/
Rogan D. Silverio L. Authors. Diagnose on Sight: Post-traumatic Finger Pain. Academic Life in Emergency Medicine. Mar 9. 2020. https://www.aliem.com/diagnose-on-sight-post-traumatic-finger-pain/
Silverio L. Approach To Abdominal pain. CDEM M4 curriculum. https://www.saem.org/cdem/education/online-education/m4-curriculum
Silverio L, Chen EH. L&D in the ED: a game-based approach to learning high-risk obstetric emergencies. MedEdPORTAL. 2019;15:10815. PMID: 31139734
Silverio L. Author. “The Wardrobe Conundrum: Your White Coat.” Feminem. January 17, 2019. https://feminem.org/2019/01/17/the-wardrobe-conundrum-your-white-coat/
Silverio L. Author. "Trick of the Trade: DIY skyhook for Upper Extremity Swelling." Academic Life in Emergency Medicine. May 28, 2018. https://www.aliem.com/2018/05/tricks-of-the-trade-diy-skyhook/
Silverio L, Cheung EV. Patient adherence with postoperative restrictions after rotator cuff repair. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2014 Apr;23(4):508-13. PMID: 24581418.
Cheung EV, Silverio L, Sperling JW. Strategies in biologic augmentation of rotator cuff repair: a review. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2010 Jun;468(6):1476-84. PMID: 20352390.
Cheung EV, Silverio L, Yao J. Delivered growth factor therapy to improve healing after rotator cuff repair. Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications. 2010 Oct;2010(3):135-144. PMID: 24198519.
Publications​
Presentations
Committees
Peer Reviewer, Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training
December 2024-present
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Clinical Competency Committee, Emergency Medicine Residency
September 2020-present
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Graduate Medical Education, Kaiser Santa Clara
September 2020-present
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Women in Leadership Steering Committee, Kaiser Santa Clara
July 2020-July 2024
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Huddle Talks, Kaiser Santa Clara Emergency Department
2019-2020
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Physician Director, Sibley Memorial Hospital Simulation Council
2017
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Physician Director, Sibley Memorial Hospital Oral Contrast Protocol Development Council
2017
UCSF+SFGH emergency medicine selection and diversity committee
2014-2016
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UCSF+SFGH EMIG resident liaison
2014-2015
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Awards and
Honors
Professional
Affiliations
American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP)
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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