Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield is Director of Sussex Health Outcomes Research & Education in Cancer (SHORE-C) psycho-oncology group at Brighton & Sussex Medical School. Her wide research interests include quality-of-life measurement in cancer therapy trials, development of patient information materials and evidence-based communication programmes for healthcare professionals. She has won numerous prestigious research awards, is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2016.