Pia Riis Olsen became a registered nurse in 1980, received her MScN in 2001, and her PhD in 2009. She is a Clinical nurse specialist in Oncology since 2004, currently in the Oncology Department at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. She is connected to the Youth Unit and her key research areas focus on Caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer and Network Focused Nursing. She participated to eight International publications on the topic of 'Adolescents and young adults with cancer' since 2009, and has been awarded for the Best Original Research Paper in Cancer Nursing in 2010. She is a reviewer for several international scientific journals, has authored professional chapters and she was the editor of two published books in Danish (2012, 2015). She regularly speaks at international conferences. Pia Riis Olsen is a Member of the European Network of Teenager and Young Adults with Cancer (ENTYAC), and a Board member of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS). Sam Smith is a qualified paediatric nurse and a specialist practitioner with twenty years of clinical experience, and a nurse consultant for teenagers and young adults.

She advises both nationally and internationally on teenage and young adult cancer and is a Board member of various national and international cancer, nursing, policy and research groups. She led and developed UK and European leadership programmes in AYA cancer care; led, developed and published first Nursing competence and career framework in AYA cancer nursing. Sam Smith is also the Editor and author of The Blueprint of Care (AYA Cancer) (2012), and she is an invited speaker at over 50 national and international conferences. She has been awarded by the European Oncology Nursing Society "Lifetime Achievement Award" 2015 in recognition of leading the development of AYA cancer nursing specialty.