Cristiane Silvestre Paula received her BS in Psicologia from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1992), MS in Psychiatry from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2001), and PhD in Doutorado Sanduiche from Johns Hopkins University (2003) and Psychiatry from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2005). Her works in psychiatry, mental illness, and internal medicine have resulted in 94 publications with more than 3000 cited papers. She mainly focuses on Psychiatry, Autism, Public health, Pervasive developmental disorder and Pediatrics. Cristiane Silvestre de Paula studies Mental health which is a part of Psychiatry. Her studies in Mental health integrate themes in fields like Psychological intervention, Developmental psychology, CBCL, Child Behavior Checklist and Checklist.