A/Prof Anthony Herbert is Director of the Paediatric Palliative Care Service at the Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service.  He is also Project Lead for the Quality of Care Collaborative of Australia (QuoCCA) for Education in Paediatric Palliative Care and Group Leader of the Paediatric Palliative and Supportive Care Research Group at the Queensland University of Technology. His research interested include communication, telehealth and more recently virtual reality in the healthcare context.