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Michael Silvers DO MPH Dr. Silvers was born in New York City and raised in Calif. Before becoming a medical doctor he became involved in providing medical care to persons living in the Amazon jungles in Brazil. During his medical studies and into his residency he continued to work in Brazil and Africa and eventually wrote his Master Thesis on Malaria control for 3 small villages in the Amazon rain forest. He specialized in Family and Preventive Medicine and is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine. In 1991 he began working in Kenya and Zambia. In 1992 he received an International Health Fellowship to study with the International Health Program Office of the Centers for Disease Control ad Prevention. During this time he worked in Egypt, Togo, Senegal and Rwanda.

From 1993-1998 he was Cheif Medical Advisor to the US Peace Corps and lived in Botswana and South Africa. He is credited with creating the Peace Corps medical services in South Africa and for collaborating in writing many medical guidelines for the Corps. He later worked with Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Kenya for Malaria Drug Development.

In 1998 he joined the University of Louisville Family Medicine Department and Directed the largest medical school course in the schools history. In 2001 he was appointed to be Director of the Jefferson County/Louisville Health District. In 2003-2004 He served as the Director of Health for the Corpus Christi/Nueces County Health District. In 2004 he founded Immuvax, currently the only Travel Medicine Clinic in Nevada. Dr. Silvers has authored more than 20 scientific articles and is an expert lecturer in vaccines and Tropical Medicine.