Silvia Vaca, MD

Endovascular Fellow
Stanford Neurosurgery

Dr. Silvia Vaca is a neurosurgeon currently completing her endovascular fellowship at Stanford Health Care. She is originally from Bogotá, Colombia and moved to the US at a young age. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Mandarin Chinese at Georgia Tech, then attended Stanford School of Medicine for her medical degree with a scholarly concentration in global health and bioengineering. Dr. Vaca then completed her neurosurgery residency at Stanford and is now a neurointerventional radiology fellow at Stanford. She is interested in cerebrovascular neurosurgery and global neurosurgery efforts, including neurosurgical capacity building in low-resource settings.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

• Fellowship at Home: A Sustainable Model for Building Cerebrovascular and Microsurgical Capacity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  Sunday, May 3, 2026
  5:01 PM - 5:05 PM CT