Dr. Robert Silver is a 1982 graduate of Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He received his Master’s Degree in cardiopulmonary physiology in 1976, and his Bachelor’s degree with honors in Animal Science in 1974, also from CSU.
Dr. Silver is currently adjunct faculty at both the Chi University and at Lincoln Memorial University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Silver established one of the first integrative veterinary hospitals in the US in Boulder, Colorado in 1993 until he sold the practice in 2010 to focus his time and energy on post-graduate education, health coaching, and veterinary product development.
Dr. Silver also runs The Well-Pet Dispensary, and a blog site that he shares with an integrative equine vet and a boarded veterinary rehabilitator at Nurse Your Pet.
Considered one of few true experts in veterinary cannabis, Dr. Silver has authored the popular book: “Medical Marijuana and Your Pet”. His second book, “There’s a Mushroom for That” is recently published. It provides an integrative health guide for veterinary conditions that are responsive to mushrooms, cannabis and integrative medicine.
Additionally, Dr. Silver has contributed 4 textbook chapters in two Springer publications on veterinary cannabis therapeutics in the past few years. He has also written a peer-reviewed article titled: “The Endocannabinoid System of Animals”.
Dr. Silver has been providing post-graduate, continuing education classes to veterinarians, both domestically and internationally, for the past 25 years. He speaks frequently and widely at veterinary conferences and webinars as well as to the pet-owning public. His area of expertise is the integration of alternative and novel therapies with conventional veterinary therapeutics, especially as concerns medical cannabis and the medical use of herbs and nutraceuticals.
Dr. Silver is a Charter Fellow and currently past-president of the American College of Veterinary Botanical Medicine and Past-President of the Veterinary Botanical Medical Association. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association and with the Hemp Feed Coalition. Dr. Silver is a founding member of the Veterinary Cannabis Society and a member of the Cannabis Clinicians Society. He is also a member of the Colorado Mycological Society as well as the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association.
Dr. Silver served as Chief Medical Officer of RxVitamins for the past 25 years until the company was sold in 2021. He also had served as Chief Veterinary Officer for Folium Biosciences, one of the largest vertically-integrated hemp companies in the United States, from 2014-2020.
Dr. Silver serves as Real Mushrooms' Chief Veterinary Officer and brings to the Real Mushrooms Science Team 40 years of practical clinical experience treating small and large animals with diet, acupuncture, nutraceuticals, botanicals and medicinal mushrooms as well as over 25 years of experience developing nutraceuticals for pets.
