Emily Silverman

Emily is an internal-medicine physician, Assistant Volunteer Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and creator of The Nocturnists, an award-winning medical storytelling program that has uplifted the voices of more than 450 clinicians since 2016 through its podcast and sold-out live performances. Her work has been supported by a MacDowell fellowship and published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Virginia Quarterly Review, JAMA, CHEST, and McSweeney’s. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, CBS This Morning, NPR’s Morning Edition, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other media outlets. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two daughters.