Senior Associate Healthcare and Risk Management Counsel
(860) 679-1482
Robert D. Silva serves as a Senior Associate Healthcare and Risk Management Counsel in the Office of General Counsel. Rob, who previously served as expert outside professional liability counsel to UConn Health for over 20 years, has assumed direct responsibility for leading OGC’s Legal Risk Management team. He has also taken a leadership role to manage and grow UConn Health’s CANDOR initiative. Rob, along with his excellent defense team in the OGC, is also defending many of the professional liability claims filed in the Connecticut superior courts. In over 30 years of defending healthcare providers, he has a well-earned reputation as a skilled and dedicated trial lawyer.