Dr. Shari C. Silverman supports the Director of Equine Safety and Welfare in implementing HISA’s safety and welfare policies nationwide. As Veterinary Liaison, she focuses on veterinary outreach, medical record auditing and addressing stakeholder equine safety and welfare questions. She also works with the IT department to develop tools for Regulatory Veterinarians and horsemen. 

Dr. Silverman is a lifelong equestrian who began competing at an early age, eventually progressing to training young horses and show jumpers in Italy. A decade after high school, she returned to the United States and resumed her education. As a pre-vet and veterinary student, she assisted with and conducted independent research in Equine Exercise Physiology and developed computer-assisted learning programs for veterinary students. 

After working in private practice, Dr. Silverman joined the New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDA) as a State Veterinarian, where she worked on livestock and equine humane investigations, infectious disease control and mitigation and served as the state animal health veterinary liaison for Animal Emergency Preparedness and Response. While with the NJDA, she began working part-time as a regulatory veterinarian at New Jersey and Pennsylvania racetracks and eventually joined the Pennsylvania Commission full-time at PARX near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In recent years, she has led the PARX veterinary team as the PA Commission Chief Veterinary Medical Field Officer.  

Dr. Silverman attended Middlesex County College, graduating with a full transfer grant to Rutgers University. She obtained early admittance to veterinary medical school and graduated as a Veterinary Medical Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania. Currently living on a farm with her husband, she enjoys trail riding in her spare time.