Julie K. Silver, MD is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Experience and Success. Dr. Silver’s research and clinical work has focused on improving gaps in the delivery of healthcare services. She has published many scientific reports focused on surgical prehabilitation and cancer rehabilitation. Her ground-breaking work on “impairment-driven cancer rehabilitation” was initially published in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians–a high impact factor oncology journal that is published by the American Cancer Society. Impairment-driven cancer rehabilitation was subsequently incorporated into the American Cancer Society’s Facts & Figures. Dr. Silver co-founded the Cancer Rehabilitation Group for the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine—a research focused interdisciplinary professional society.
