Professor Meera Agar is current chair of the Palliative Care Australia Board. She is a palliative medicine physician with interests in delirium, supportive care needs of people with brain tumours and geriatric oncology. Professor Agar is the Director of IMPACCT, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney and leads a clinical research portfolio at UTS, including clinical trials and health services evaluation in cancer and palliative care. A Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Fellow 2020 of the Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine, and a clinician scientist, she holders a Masters in Palliative Care. Her doctorate was awarded in the area of delirium in advanced illness.  Her clinical role is at South West Sydney Local Health District. Professor Agar is  Chair of Cancer Symptom Trials. Professor Agar is on the scientific committees of the Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-oncology (COGNO), the Psycho-oncology Cooperative Research Group (PoCoG),  A Board Member of the European Delirium Association, committee member of the Australasian Delirium Association, and Chair of the Geriatric Oncology Group for the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia. She is the immediate past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society (ANZSPM) for Palliative Medicine.