Our 2025 POP! Keynote, Emily Silverman, MD is an internal medicine doctor in San Francisco and Founder of The Nocturnists, an award winning podcast. She has a new 13-part documentary series called the Uncertainty in Medicine. One of the episodes, Through Thick and Thin, addresses primary care diagnostic uncertainty, persistence, and the quiet power of staying in it together through false starts, frustration, and finally, an answer.
Emily is an internal medicine doctor in San Francisco and Founder of The Nocturnists. Her writing has been supported by MacDowell and published in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, JAMA, McSweeneys, and more. She was awarded Honoree of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ 100 List in 2020, which celebrates creative changemakers whose work is in service of building sustainable, equitable, and regenerative communities. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
