Dr. Silverman is a family physician and adolescent medicine specialist.  She received her medical doctorate from S.U.N.Y. Upstate Medical Center College of Medicine (Syracuse NY) in 1977.  Dr. Silverman does public speaking, along with acting and singing.  She considers herself a "recovering allopath."  Dr. Silverman’s describes a professional epiphany she had on vaccines in 2009 after watching a series of IMCV webinars over a period of five or six months.  She describes these webinar as an excellent sources of documented scientific evidence that cogently supports the vaccine link to so much morbidity and mortality.  .