Dr Claudia Virdun is an experienced specialist palliative care nurse interested in enabling optimal care for people with advanced serious illness. Claudia’s passion for excellence in palliative care has seen her focus on clinical care delivery, research and improvement work to inform service change. Claudia’s deep professional experience coupled with emerging research capabilities enables a holistic and practical “end to end” approach to research that is well informed by current issues from clinical and health workforce perspectives, is innovative, relevant and able to “cut through” to drive successful improvements in care delivery. Claudia is currently a Senior Research Fellow for the Faculty of Health at the Queensland University of Technology.