Dr Vincent Paramanandam is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Lymphoedema Education, Research and Treatment Program (ALERT). He worked as a clinical physiotherapist for 20 years at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India. During his clinical career, he played a crucial role in founding the Society of Onco-Physiotherapists of India and establishing an evidence-based course in oncological physiotherapy that continues to be offered at Tata Memorial Hospital. His research addresses physiotherapy for cancer sequelae, particularly lymphoedema after breast cancer. His recent randomised trial proved that prophylactic use of compression sleeves reduces the incidence of arm swelling in women at high risk of breast cancer-related lymphoedema. This trial, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JIF 44), is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric and received the best of the best oral presentation award at the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia scientific meeting - 2023. He was awarded a prestigious USydIS Strategic Scholarship from the University of Sydney for his PhD. The quality and importance of his research have been recognised with a Distinction from the Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, and the Paper of the Year award from the Journal of Physiotherapy. He is a registered physiotherapist (AHPRA). He was a physiotherapy lecturer at the University of Sydney before moving to Macquarie University. Vincent completed Macquarie University supervision training to supervise MRes and PhD students.

Conservative prophylaxis of cancer-related lymphoedema, psychometrics,  patient-reported outcome measures (PROM).