Rebecca Silvers, DNP, APN, CPNP-AC, CCRN, is the founding director of the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Center for Global Nursing (CGN) and an assistant clinical professor at the UCSF School of Nursing. She continues her clinical practice as a pediatric nurse practitioner specializing in critical care and neurosurgery at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals and serves as the nursing lead for UCSF’s WHO Collaborating Center for Emergency, Critical, and Operative Care.
Dr. Silvers brings more than 20 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse and certified pediatric nurse practitioner in critical care, having worked at eight of the top children’s hospitals across the United States. She also has over two decades of global health expertise, contributing to critical care and nursing initiatives in more than 25 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Dr. Silvers has worked as a critical care education consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations (UN), Global Surgery Fund, and organizations such as Friends Without a Border, Partners in Health, and Novick Cardiac Alliance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the nursing lead for the launch of the Open Critical Care Project, an online resource to support critical care systems globally.
Currently, she is developing content and faculty for the pilots of WHO's Basic Critical Care Course and contributing to surgical education and workforce development as a technical expert for the UN Global Surgery Learning Hub and the nursing research lead for the Global Neurosurgery Consortium.
Dr. Silvers’s leadership in critical care education, workforce development, and systems strengthening reflects her deep commitment to partnering with healthcare providers in LMICs to advance emergency and critical care globally.
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