In a follow-up to an investigative report, N Digital reports that the Ministry of Superior Education has confirmed that alleged neuroscientist and psychologist Elizabeth Silverio does not have a single university degree to back her practice. She operated the Kogland Center for children with autism in Santo Domingo.
Nuria Piera had unmasked the fake doctor in neurosciences during an investigation for N Investigación Periodistica aired on Channel 9.
Superior Education Minister Franklin García Fermín says his ministry issued a certification to this intent at the request of the National District Prosecutor’s Office. This entity is investigating the self-made neuroscientist after the Ministry of Public Health filed a complaint against her.
“Recently yesterday, I signed a communication at the request of the National District Public Prosecutor… where she asked us that a person pretending to be a psychologist, then when we looked here in the records evidently that this person does not have a university degree registered in this area of knowledge, we immediately sent them a certification and that is certain that a case is heard in the courts of the Republic,” said the Minister of Superior Education.
Nuria Piera in N Investigación Periodística revealed that Silverio was practicing medicine and psychology without having the exequatur, or permission, as established by Public Health Law 42-01. The woman’s Kogland Center was closed last month by the Ministry of Public Health after the investigative report aired on Channel 9. Silverio had claimed to have doctoral and masters titles from universities in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Silverio was so convincing in her role as a country expert on autism that she was part of the advisors consulted by the committee that drafted the country’s new Autism Law.
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7 June 2023