After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, MUDr . Silvia Hnilicová worked at the Institute of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine with a specialist internship and an examination in internal medicine at II. Department of Internal Medicine, Comenius University. She focused on patient adherence to treatment and participated in the establishment of the Drug Information Center at the Comenius University Faculty of Medicine. In 1994 she completed a study stay at Universidad La Laguna, Spain. During her 13-year stay in the USA, she devoted herself to autism and ABA therapy. She worked as Program Director, Home-Based Autism Therapy from 2004 to 2009. Since 2009, she has focused on the quality of health care provided, culminating in a PhD. In 2011 and 2012, she worked as a program director for medical affairs at the “Klient PRO SK” Since 2013, she has been working at ARCA, Faculty of Medicine, CU as a diagnostician and is the founder of ARCA oz.
She specializes in autism screening, early diagnosis and creating standards for screening, diagnosis, and management of autism for the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic.