Lena Sharp, RN, PhD, is the former president of EONS, the former chair of the EONS advocacy working group and the current project leader for the PrEvCan initiative. She is the head of department at the Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm-Gotland, Sweden. Lena has been a cancer nurse since 1985. She has extensive experience in clinical cancer nursing, leadership, teaching and research. Prior to taking up her post at the Regional Cancer Centre, Lena Sharp was the chief nursing officer and patient safety coordinator at the Department of Oncology at the Karolinska University Hospital. Her main focus areas in cancer nursing research are patient safety, communication, leadership, inequalities and cancer-care organisation. She has experience in leading cancer prevention work regionally, nationally and internationally, with a particular focus on cancer-related inequalities. Lena and her team received the first healthcare equality award in Stockholm in 2018. In 2021, Lena was awarded the Robert Tiffany Award in cancer nursing and the EONS Lifetime Achievement Award.