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Desiree Silva is a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Western Australia and Joondalup Health Campus, having served in this role since 2011. She is the current Head of Paediatrics Neonatology at Joondalup Health Campus and an adjunct professor at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University. Silva co-directs the ORIGINS project, a collaborative initiative aimed at establishing a new WA intervention birth cohort of 10,000 families with a focus on early life health. Her research interests include the impact of early environmental risk factors on the diagnosis and management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), neonatology, autism, and other developmental disorders. Silva has published extensively on ADHD and plays a vital role in community engagement projects related to child health in Western Australia. She has attracted significant research funding, including grants from the NHMRC and MRFF. Silva's work also emphasizes translational research and her involvement in multiple collaborative studies focuses on community health outcomes.
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