Yael Lefkovits is a medical registrar at Royal Melbourne Hospital. She holds a Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery with First Class Honours from Monash. She also holds an intercalated Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree through Monash and Cambridge, for which she was awarded Dux. Her research into the artificial pancreas has been published in numerous peer-reviewed articles and textbooks. Yael has a strong interest in public health, having worked for the World Health Organisation in Geneva and she has also co-founded a health literacy course for refugees and asylum seekers. More recently she became the youngest steering sub-committee member of Australia’s National Gynaecology Oncology Registry, and she has also served as secretary of the AMA’s Women in Medicine Committee. With her scholarship she will study a Master of Science in Precision Cancer Medicine at Oxford. Given the paucity of effective ovarian cancer treatments she hopes to develop novel immunotherapeutic options for gynaecological malignancies and improve life quality for Australian women with cancer.