Devlin has two allied health degrees focused on physical therapy, rehabilitation and exercise to improve lives. He is both a Physiotherapist and an Exercise Physiologist. 

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Devlin has been awarded Australia's most prestigious recognition for Exercise Physiology:

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• Australian Exercise Physiologist of the Year (Exercise and Sports Science Australia).

 

He has also been awarded several other recognitions including a National Practitioner Award (Exercise and Sports Science Australia). 

Most recently Devlin was NSW winner and national finalist for the St Vincent's Health Excellence Awards, recognised for starting and successfully leading one of Australia's only heart failure and pre-heart transplant exercise programs. 

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Devlin practices with the most up to date evidence based care. He has held research and research officer roles, academic and lecturing roles at universities, has been principal investigator for research projects and has published multiple papers in academic journals including as primary author. 
In 2024 Devlin wrote the exercise guidelines in the GP handbook for the management of type 2 diabetes, by the RACGP. 

In 2026 Devlin wrote the standard for multidisciplinary care and exercise in the updated NSW heart failure clinical framework, by the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation. 

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Devlin also understands the complexities within the healthcare system.

He has served as Chair of the Exercise Physiology Advisory Network for the NSW Ministry of Health, Chair of the NSW Exercise Physiology Cardio Respiratory Network, has been appointed member to several state government networks and working groups, the Agency for Clinical Innovation and has been involved in the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport for a parliamentary inquiry into diabetes in healthcare.

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