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Director ECU Health & Wellness Institute

Telephone:	(61 8)  6304 3420
Email:	d.galvao@ecu.edu.au
Campus:	Joondalup
Room:	JO21.231

 

Background

• 2012-current: Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, Edith Cowan University Health and Wellness Institute, WA, Australia.
• 2010-current: Director, Edith Cowan University Health and Wellness Institute, Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia.
• 2010-2012: Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, School of Exercise and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia.
• 2009-2010: Acting Director, Vario Health Institute, Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia.
• Senior Research Fellow - School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia.
• 2007-2008: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Sciences and Vario Health Institute, Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia.
• 2006-2007: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Care, Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia.

Professional Memberships

• American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
  
• Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA)
  
• Sports Medicine Australia (SMA)
• Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA)
• Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group (ANZUP)
• Multinational Society of Supportive Cancer Care in Cancer (MASCC)
• Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4)
• Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI)
  

Awards and Recognitions

• 2012 - Western Australia Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year 2012. Australian Institute of Policy and Science
  
• 2011 - Finalist Western Australia Science Awards, Early Career Scientist of the Year The Government of Western Australia.
• 2011 - Edith Cowan University’s top Research Activity Index performer for the year of 2010.
• 2011 - Second prize at Australasian Prostate Cancer Conference Poster Award for Urology Category, for: Peddle-McIntyre, et al. Presented at 12th Australasian Prostate Cancer Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
• 2010 - Edith Cowan University’s Top Research Activity Index performer for the year of 2009.
• 2009 - Government of Western Australia Department of Health. New Independent Researcher Infrastructure Support (NIRIS) Award. 2009. (Award $10,000).
• 2009 - ECU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research by Early Academics.
• 2009 - Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Award Highly Commended Paper in the Category of Performance Enhancement and Basic Science. Be Active, Brisbane, 14-17 October 2009.
  
• 2007 - Exercise Sports Science Australia (ESSA) Medal for Most Outstanding PhD Thesis in Australia.
• 2007 - The Cancer Council of Western Australia first launched Early Career Investigator Grant.
  
• 2004 - Young Investigator Award at the Pre-Olympic Conference - International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education Development Award, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• 2003 - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Award for Best Poster Injury Prevention and Health Promotion Australian Association of Science and Medicine in Sport at the Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, Canberra, Australia.
• 2003 - Short listed for the Ken Maguire Award for best young investigator (Clinical Exercise) Australian Association of Science and Medicine in Sport at the Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, Canberra, Australia.
  

Research Areas and Interests

• Applications of exercise as medicine for the prevention of cancer and treatment side-effects.