A/Prof Vinicius Cavalheri

A/Prof Cavalheri is the Allied Health Research Director at South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, and an Associate Professor in the Curtin School of Allied Health at Curtin University. As Allied Health Research Director at SMHS, he provides leadership and fosters excellence in allied health research and articulates with research across the different professions and programs of research across SMHS and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University. He was trained on systematic review and meta-analysis methodology by Cochrane Australia in 2011 and, since then, has published over 25 systematic reviews and mentored several researchers on the process of undertaking systematic reviews and meta-analysis. A/Prof Cavalheri has received many awards for his research, including the 2024 Curtin University Award for Research Excellence