Dr Erin Howden is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Science at the University of New South Wales and is the head of the Cardiometabolic Health and Exercise Physiology Lab at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. In 2020, Erin was awarded a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship to investigate the cardioprotective role of exercise in patients treated for cancer. Erin’s program of research seeks to enhance the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic disease in at risk cancer groups through developing innovative multidisciplinary approaches, with a particular focus on “exercise as medicine”.