Dr Linda Sheahan is a Clinical Ethics Consultant who founded and leads the Clinical Ethics Service for South East Sydney Local Health Service in NSW. Linda has a Fellowship in Clinical and Organisational Ethics from the Joint Centre for Bioethics in Toronto Canada, and is an Honorary Associate with Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney as a member of the Clinical Ethics Network. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians and the Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine, and works clinically as a Staff Specialist in Palliative Care in Cancer Care at St George hospital, and as the Clinical Stream Director for End of Life and Palliative care for SELSHD.