Nicola Schembri graduated from the University of Malta, Medical School in 2001. She obtained her radiology specialist training and medical education fellowship in the UK, where she worked as an NHS Consultant Radiologist in the latter years prior to emigrating to Australia in 2017 where she now offers a clinical emergency and elective teleradiology service with ATMC to several UK NHS hospitals. She currently also holds a fractional contract offering a consultant radiologist clinical service at one of the university teaching hospitals in the South Island, New Zealand. While in the UK, Nicola nurtured a subspecialist interest in thoracic imaging, interstitial lung disease being her niche specialist field. Her thoracic expertise developed further through her intense reporting sessions in traumatic and non-traumatic emergency imaging with the TMC UK on-call department and by contributing to the various chest imaging multidisciplinary meetings in both the UK and New Zealand. She is also an active accredited radiologist for the NHS England Lung Health Check screening program. Nicola is an author contributor in several peer-reviewed journal articles on pulmonary fibrosis and bronchiectasis published in the international leading peer-reviewed journals “Thorax” and “Chest”. She held a leading role in medical education both in medical student and radiology specialist registrar training programs in the UK and is a current lecturer in medical education at the Australian National University Medical School.