Brian is the director of Palliative Care at the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, including the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Brian is a board certified Palliative Medicine Physician and Medical Oncologist, and is an Associate Professor of the University of Melbourne.

Brian has published 90 peer reviewed scientific papers and book chapters, is involved with research in the areas of palliative and supportive care, including clinical trials of novel therapies, and research into palliative care integration and benefits for patients and carers.

Julia Agne is a board-certified internist and palliative medicine physician at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her career focus is care delivery models and clinic development for outpatient palliative care. She earned her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati in 2013. She graduated from a dual residency program in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital in 2017. She completed fellowship in palliative medicine at the Ohio State University in 2018 before joining the faculty as an assistant professor in the same year. Dr. Agne currently works in both a freestanding palliative clinic for oncology patients as well as an embedded palliative clinic focused on patients with thoracic malignancies.