Scott Silvers, MD, FACEP has established himself to be an executive leader and innovator in healthcare who is passionate about building the teams, culture, and systems that deliver accessible, highly reliable, high-value healthcare. He has a track record of transformative innovations in clinical practice, focused on the translation and delivery of best evidence to frontline providers leading to improved quality, safety, service, and financial outcomes.
Dr. Silvers attended college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received a BS in biology and a minor in chemistry. He went on to attend medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, NY where he graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society and received the George H Whipple Award for outstanding research. He received his residency training in Emergency Medicine at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA where he was elected chief resident in his 4th year of training. Dr. Silvers was recruited to Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida in 2001 to help establish academic emergency medicine. He served as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine for 12 years which included several years as the national system Chair for the Emergency Medicine service line. He has served in multiple other leadership roles at Mayo Clinic including both the Chair of Facilities and Planning where he has helped to oversee enormous capital expansion on the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida, as well as the Medical Director of Development. During his 20+ year tenure at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Silvers brought multiple clinical innovations to fruition including conceiving of and leading the development of a system of knowledge management (i.e. Ask Mayo Expert) that has since become the central repository of clinical truth for Mayo Clinic and the core knowledge base for most clinical decision support efforts.
In 2022, Dr. Silvers was recruited by Optum Health to serve as Chief Medical Officer of Knowledge Management and the national leader of Quality and Patient Safety for the 100 million patients directly and indirectly receiving services by Optum Health. Dr. Silvers was recognized for establishing the systems, culture, and integration that has supported Optum Health’s delivering of high-value care with greater reliability.
Dr. Silvers has over 80 publications in peer-reviewed literature and he continues to lecture nationally and internationally. He is a member of both the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policies Committee as well as the American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee where he contributes to the development of national, evidence-based guidelines. He has served as co-editor of the textbooks Cardiovascular Emergencies and Emergency Cardiovascular Care and CPR and he has authored multiple previous editions of the textbook Blueprints in Emergency Medicine. In coordination with the University of Miami’s Center for Research in Medical Education, Dr. Silvers is co-developer of the Advanced Stroke Life Support curriculum which has been widely adopted internationally for stroke training. He serves as a reviewer for multiple medical journals and is a member of the editorial board of Emergency Medicine Practice. Dr. Silvers also serves as co-director of the International Clinical Decision-Making in Emergency Medicine Conference which is currently in its 24th year.