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Meet Silvia's clinical advisors: Dr Emma Ward and Dr Jingyi Hu
Introducing the clinicians who have shaped and challenged Silvia from the inside.
There's a question I get asked a lot. Who checks this?
It's the right question. If you're a GP, a clinic lead or a pharmacist, you want to know that a tool you put in front of patients has been shaped by people who do the job. So I want to introduce two of them properly.
Dr Emma Ward, with us from day one
Emma has been with us since before Silvia was even a business. She has guided and shaped the product into what it is today.
Emma is a GP of more than 20 years and a British Menopause Society accredited menopause specialist, holding the BMS Advanced Certificate in Menopause Care and a PgCert. She is also an ISGE Advanced Practitioner, runs Liberty Menopause Care in the High Peak, and has published research on sarcopenia with the BMS and RCOG.
When I first sat down to work out what Silvia should be, Emma was one of the first people I spoke to. She has challenged it, tested it and pushed it ever since. A lot of what makes Silvia useful in a real consultation comes from her asking, "would a clinician actually use this?"
I'm really pleased to recognise her properly, because she deserves the credit.
Welcoming Dr Jingyi Hu
Jingyi joins us as a Clinical Advisor, and she brings a brilliant mix of frontline practice and service design.
She is a senior GP and women's health specialist with more than 10 years' post-CCT experience, with a particular focus on menopause, contraception and sexual and reproductive health. As a PCN Sexual Health Lead she has built and rolled out new clinical pathways, turning guidance into models of care that work day to day. She is also a GP Trainer, clinical supervisor and OSCE examiner, and holds MRCGP, DFSRH, an MRes in Public Health Research and the BMS Management of Menopause Certificate.
That pathway experience matters to us. Silvia lets each practice set its own triage rules, and Jingyi knows better than most what it takes to make a pathway hold up in a busy surgery.
Why this matters
Silvia supports clinical judgement. It never replaces it. It organises what a patient tells us into a structured, NICE NG23-aligned summary, so the clinician starts the consultation with the full picture and every decision stays theirs.
That only works if clinicians shape it. Emma and Jingyi sit alongside our Clinical Safety Officers at The Digital Health Assurance Company, who oversee our clinical safety work to NHS standard DCB0129.
You can meet the whole team on our About page.
Welcome Jingyi. And thank you Emma, for everything so far.
Amy Wild, Founder & CEO, Silvia Health