I'm a Clinical Oncology specialty registrar at Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Scotland, UK.

Melissa Culligan is a Clinical Instructor in Surgery and Director of Clinical Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Division of Thoracic Surgery. She has an Adjunct Faculty appointment at Widener University School of Nursing. She serves as the Chair of the International Society of the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Committee and as a Steering Committee member for the International Thoracic Oncology Nursing Forum. She is a PhD student at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, focusing on the patients lived experience of dyspnea before and after lung-sparing surgery for mesothelioma.