Dr Liisa Laakso is Principal Research Fellow (Allied Health) at Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland; Honorary Associate Professor (The University of Queensland Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences); and Adjunct Professor (Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health, Sport and Social Work at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia). Dr Laakso’s research focuses on the role of non-drug therapies for symptom prevention and control in non-malignant and malignant laboratory and clinical models and populations such as surgical conditions, chronic, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative diseases, and in cancer and palliative care.