Philippa Cahill is an experienced nurse leader in community, cancer, and palliative care services.  Whilst a senior nurse manager Philippa collaboratively developed new models of care such as the now well-established palliative care consultant nursing roles designed to support patients and nurses in aged care facilities.  Philippa has recently completed her doctoral program of research focused on the use of family meetings in palliative care.  Her research focused on the experiences and outcomes of patients’, families’, and clinicians’ participation in a patient-centred family meeting.  Importantly, her family meeting model enabled the patient to set the meeting agenda which gave the patient a ‘voice’ in care planning and decision making.  In recent years Philippa’s parents required aged care, including residential aged care.  She became their constant advocate particularly for their end-of-life care.  As a result, Philippa brings an understanding of how to optimise palliative care from a clinician, researcher, and family perspective.