In 1994, Dr. Silva graduated from The University of Texas with a bachelor of arts in biology. She completed her doctorate at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1998. Dr. Silva finished her residency in Family Medicine in 2001 at the University of Iowa. Dr. Silva came to Kelsey-Seybold from Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco’s Bay Area where she provided primary care to adults from 2002 to 2010. While there, she provided electronic medical record system education and training to physicians and medical assistants. She served as assistant module chief of the Spanish Bilingual Module.