Tamara Paravicini

Associate Professor Tamara Paravicini is a pharmacologist and academic leader at RMIT University's School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, where she currently serves as Discipline Leader for Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her career spans two decades at the intersection of biomedical research, teaching, and academic leadership. 

Tamara completed her PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne (2005) and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Ottawa Health Research Institute and the University of Queensland, where she later led an independent research group as a Lecturer in Pharmacology. Her research on cardiovascular disease and hypertension has been published in journals including Circulation Research, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Research, and has been cited over 3,400 times.  

Since joining RMIT in 2014, Tamara's focus has shifted toward education leadership. She has coordinated over a dozen undergraduate and Honours courses, led a school-wide redesign of anatomy and physiology curricula, and managed the Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science and its industry-based Honours program. She played a central role in RMIT's Curriculum Architecture redevelopment in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, and now provides strategic leadership for the Pharmaceutical Sciences discipline.  She has received multiple awards for her leadership in education and the use of innovative technologies in teaching, including the SHBS Executive Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence.