Michelle Vaughan is a Medical Oncologist at Christchurch Hospital, and St Georges Cancer Care Centre, and Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, Christchurch. She has 25 years experience cancer having trained at Auckland Hospital, the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, then 2 years working as the European Medical Director of a London based pharmaceutical company. She subspecialises in gynaecological and lower gastrointestinal cancers.