Luminary: Sylver Quevedo

Luminary: Sylver Quevedo

Sylver Quevedo, MD, MPH, is the Medical Director of Clinical Programs at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. A board-certified specialist in internal medicine with a subspecialty in nephrology, Dr. Quevedo is also providing integrative medicine consultations to patients at the Osher Center's clinical practice. His interests include quality of life in chronic illness, the interface between spirituality and medicine and the comparative study of healing traditions.

Dr. Quevedo earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and a masters degree in public health at Harvard's School of Public Health. His postdoctoral training included family and community medicine, internal medicine, studies in law and public policy at Stanford Law School, and a fellowship in nephrology and medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. As a member of the Stanford Medical School faculty, he served as Associate Chief of Nephrology and Medical Director of the Artificial Kidney Center at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. He was also founding director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the O'Connor Hospital in San Jose.

Dr. Quevedo has served on national boards and committees of the American Kidney Fund, the National Academy of Sciences and the American College of Physicians.