Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates, AM is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology and Co-Director of QUT’s Centre for Healthcare Transformation. Patsy is Deputy Program Director for ICN’s Global Nursing Leadership Institute. She has extensive experience as a leader in practice, education and research in nursing and the health sector. She leads a large competitively funded research program focused on developing workforce capacity in cancer, palliative and aged care, advancing the management of cancer-related symptoms and treatment side effects, and strengthening the nexus between research, policy and practice in cancer, palliative and aged care. Patsy is the immediate past-President of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care and a past-President of Palliative Care Australia. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing and the American Academy of Nursing.