Professor Mei Krishnasamy PhD, FAAN, is Professor of Cancer Nursing at the University of Melbourne and Research and Education Lead for Nursing at the VCCC Alliance. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Mei is past President of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia and the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia. She has co-authored competitive research grants totalling over AUD$38m, and her research focuses on cancer supportive care, health equity and the experiences and outcomes of care for people with poor outcome cancers. She has considerable teaching and post-graduate supervision experience and holds national leadership positions on nursing and multi-disciplinary professional and policy committees.