Natasha Machado The Joint Annual Meeting of the Stroke Society of Australasia (SSA) and Smartstrokes 2023

Natasha Machado

Natasha Machado is a senior clinical exercise physiologist at Epworth HealthCare with 16 years’ experience in neurological and cardiorespiratory populations. She was awarded her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2025, titled ‘Early initiated cardiorespiratory fitness training within Cardiac Rehabilitation in Stroke Survivors to Improve Survivorship (CRiSSIS). The output of this work included five peer reviewed publications, numerous poster and oral presentations at multiple national and international conferences such as the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 2025, and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine 2021. Natasha Machado was awarded ‘Young Investigator Award’ at the Exercise Sports Science Australia conference 2021 and has obtained >$250k in competitive research grant funding.