Vincent Singh Paramanandam
Dr Paramanandam is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne. He worked as a clinical physiotherapist for > 20 years at Tata Memorial Hospital – a large-volume cancer centre in Mumbai, India. During his clinical career, he founded the Society of Onco-Physiotherapists of India, qualified as a certified lymphoedema therapist, and he established the 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 most 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. He was awarded a prestigious USydIS Strategic Scholarship from the University of Sydney, where he maintains an Honorary Research Associate title. 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.
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