Emily Silverman, MD

Emily Silverman, MD (she/her) is the Creator and Host of The Nocturnists, an award-winning medical storytelling live show and podcast. She is also an internal medicine physician and Volunteer Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Emily is interested in using storytelling to unearth complex truths about doctoring, build community, and facilitate an environment of acceptance and healing. Her writing has been supported by MacDowell and published in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, JAMA, CHEST, McSweeneys, and The Examined Life Journal. She was recently selected by Podcast Magazine as one of the top “40 Under 40 in Podcasting” for 2022. Currently, Emily and The Nocturnists team are planning their first live storytelling show since before the pandemic, Together Again, at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco on Friday, June 10th. Emily is also producing an audio documentary series, Shame in Medicine, that will be released on The Nocturnists this fall 2022. Emily lives with her husband and daughter in San Francisco, and tweets @ESilvermanMD.