Simone Ross, PhD, has over 14 years of experience working in health professional education. Simone has held multiple roles at James Cook University in Australia for the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. These include the research coordinator for social accountability, and more recently the coordinator for student professionalism education and leadership skills. Simone has engaged in numerous student development initiatives, including health and wellbeing of MBBS (medical) students. Simone served as a consultant project manager for the Training for Health Equity Network during 2011 to 2019. During COVID and ongoing, Simone was an inaugural national organising committee member for the Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Collaboration. During Simone’s PhD she created and validated the first Australian Medical Student Leadership Framework for medical students in medical entry professional degrees.