Professor Stephen Clarke is Director of Cancer Services in Northern Sydney Local Health District and Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is an established clinician and translational cancer researcher in thoracic and gastrointestinal malignancies. He is Head of the NSW State Committee of the RACP and Oncology Advisor to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs and a member of the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Review Committee and the Scientific Advisory Committees of the National Institute of Complementary Medicine and Australasian GI Tumour Group. He received an OAM in 2011 and the Eric Susman Prize for Translational Research (RACP) in 2013.