Alison Brand AM, MD MMED FRCS(C) FRANZGOG CGO is a Clinical Professor at the University of Sydney and Director of the Department Gynaecological Oncology at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. She is Past-Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group (ANZGOG).and the Gynaecological Cancer Intergroup, an umbrella organisation of 33 international clinical trials groups. In 2021, she was awarded Member, Order of Australia (AM) for “significant service to medicine, to gynaecology and to medical organisations”.