[1] She then worked at the Columbia University School of Tropical Medicine in San Juan under Arturo L. Carrión for 13 years.
[2] Silva-Hutner began attending Harvard University on a scholarship in 1950 and joined the Mycology Laboratory at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center later that year.
[1] She was promoted to associate professor in 1963[1] and remained on the faculty at Columbia University for over fifty years.
[3] She served as Chair of the Nomination Committee for the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas at the time of its founding and was active within the organization.
[5] Silva-Hutner’s work on chromoblastomycosis laid the groundwork for further research on this pathogen, which remains among the most difficult fungal infections to manage.