David Silvestri
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biography
Biography
David Silvestri, MD, MBA is an emergency medicine physician with a longstanding interest in equity, quality, and sustainability of acute care delivery worldwide. Dr. Silvestri completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard College, his Doctor of Medicine and Masters in Business Administration at Vanderbilt University, and residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. Dr. Silvestri has undertaken numerous projects related to global health systems, and with his labors taking him to over thirty countries. At Vanderbilt, he was awarded a one-year research fellowship to study migration plans among medical and nursing trainees in Asia and Africa, and has more recently focused on strengthening emergency health system research capacity in Ethiopia. In his spare time, Dr. Silvestri enjoys training for and competing in triathlons. As a clinician scholar, Dr. Silvestri seeks to explore the potential of big data to identify and address local and system-wide opportunities to improve acute care outcomes. He is also interested in acute care financing and the effects of divergent payment schemes on consumer and provider behavior. Dr. Silvestri wishes to pursue a research career that bridges international and domestic health systems policy and innovation, with a particular interest in leveraging large data sets to strengthen acute care quality, efficiency, and equity.