Dr. Sushma Bhatnagar is a Head, National Cancer Institute (India) & Professor and Head of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Care, at the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Her area of research is ‘Cancer Pain Management and Palliative Care’. She has 24 years of teaching and research experience, which has included teaching pain and palliative care to undergraduate and postgraduate medical and nursing students and has supervised students’ theses on radiotherapy, medical oncology and general surgery, theology and psychology. Working at national level, she is a member of the Advisory Group of the National Palliative Care Program at the Ministry of Health in India, and coordinates ‘Pain Policy’ at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. She believes that Palliative Care can revolutionise and change the way cancer healthcare works in India.