Dr Dinesha De Silva is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician who completed her MBBS at Monash University. She gained her Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2005, following completion of her respiratory training at Monash Medical Centre and the Austin Hospital. Following her training, she worked as a full-time respiratory and sleep physician in two tertiary hospitals in New Zealand. She currently works as a respiratory, sleep and general physician at Southern Health. Her interests are chronic obstructive lung disease, chronic disease management, sleep medicine and chronic respiratory failure.