About Lisa: Since qualifying as a nurse in the early 1990s, Lisa has worked across a variety of specialities and healthcare providers. Her original speciality was acute care, working on the Burns Unit before undertaking a course in Intensive Care course. Around periods of living abroad and starting a family, she worked in the unit at Brighton before moving into cancer care. Lisa worked initially on the medical day case unit (now Amberley) at Worthing hospital, before moving to the County in Brighton to work in research, then as an Acute oncology nurse specialist and then Cancer Matron.On completing an MSc in Acute Clinical Practice, Lisa moved to work at the Royal Marsden as a nurse consultant in Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatments. She then worked as Lead Nurse for Cancer, palliative and End of Life Care, before becoming Divisional Director of nursing  for the new cancer division following the merger with Brighton & Sussex University hospitals NHS Trust. Her focus in her role will be to focus  on quality, safety, governance, education and research for our services, as well as the development of the senior leadership structure for our clinical teams as we move forward with the merger.Lisa is currently undertaking a part-time PhD through King’s College London and she loves exploring Europe with my husband by motorbike and would one day like to do a longer trip from Canada to South America!From Lisa: “I am passionate about ensuring we provide safe, effective, high quality and personalised care to our patients and their families & carers. I see this as a really exciting opportunity to work together and build on the excellent care and support our teams already provide. ”