O Dr. Alvarez-Silva foi o membro do Conselho Editorial do MAYFEB Journal of Medicine durante 2016 – 2018. É atualmente membro do Conselho Editorial do Current Stem Cell Research & Therapy e do International Journal of Pathology and Clinical Research.
Publicou artigos em revistas científicas e capítulos em livros especializados: ALVAREZ-SILVA, Marcio. 2015. Stem Cell Niche and Microenvironment. Principles of Stem Cell Biology and Cancer: Future Applications and Therapeutics, edited by Tarik Regad; Thomas Sayers; Robert Rees. Ed 1, 45-64. USA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Tem atuado como Chair / Membro do Comitê Organizador: 1) World Digital Pathology & Pathologists Congress, December 05-06, 2016, Madrid, Spain, 2) 13th European Pathology Congress (Euro Pathology 2017), August 02-03, 2017, Milan, Italy,  3) International Conference and Exhibition on Cancer & Therapeutics (Cancer USA), Jan 29-31, 2018 Las Vegas, USA, 4) Annual International Pathology Conference, May 21-22, 2018, Valencia, Spain, 5) 3rd International Conference on Digital Pathology (Digital Pathology-2018), August 13-14, 2018, Madrid, Spain, 6) World Congress on Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, September 10-11, 2018, Singapore, 7) 17th International Conference on Pathology during October 08-09, 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8) International Conference on Genomics and Molecular Biology, November 26-27, 2018, Madrid, Spain, 9) 15th International Congress on American Pathology and Oncology Research, December 03-04, 2018, Chicago, USA, 10) Annual Summit on Pathology, April 19-20, 2019, Tokyo, Japan, 11) the International Conference on Pathology, September 2-4, 2019, Baltimore, USA, 12) The 16th International Conference on Surgical Pathology and Cancer Diagnosis, March 23-24, 2020, London, UK , 13) The World Congress on Pathology, October 29-30, 2020, Rome, Italy, 14) The International Conference on Pathology, April 8-9, 2021, Budapest, Hungary, 15) International Conference and Exhibition on Cancer & Therapeutics (Cancer London 2021), June 22 - 24, 2021, London, UK.

Foi o fundador da revista digital: Entendendo o Câncer, em março de 2019.