Professor Mei Krishnasamy PhD, FAAN, is Director of the Academic Nursing Unit at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and honorary Chair in Cancer Nursing at the University of Melbourne. She is Research and Education Lead for Nursing for the VCCC Alliance, and co-lead of the Victorian Regional Research Teaching Hub program as part of the Victorian ReVitalise initiative. Mei is past President of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia and the Cancer Nurses of Australia and is Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Her research focuses on cancer supportive care, health equity and experiences of care for people with poor prognosis cancers, and the contribution of nurses to patient and system level outcomes.