Prof Meera Agar is the Professor of Palliative Medicine, University of Technology Sydney (UTS); Director of Centre for Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT), senior palliative care physician, and research lead for South West Sydney Local Health District Palliative Care Service (Sydney, Australia). She graduated in medicine with honours from the University of Adelaide. She obtained her Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2004 in Palliative Medicine. In 2020, Professor Agar was appointed as Chair, Palliative Care Australia Board. She is a clinical trialist and clinical researcher with a specific interest in delirium in advanced illness.