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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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