Mei Ling Yap is a staff specialist radiation oncologist at Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres, Sydney. She is a conjoint senior lecturer at UNSW Sydney and Western Sydney University and an adjunct senior lecturer at University of Sydney. She undertook a clinical research fellowship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, from 2011-2013, which included sub-specialisation in radiotherapy for breast cancer.
She is the co-chair of the Asia Pacific Radiation Oncology Special Interest Group (APROSIG) RANZCR-FRO, which supports the safe and sustainable development of radiotherapy services in low and middle income countries in our region. She was selected to be a Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Young Cancer Leader in 2015. She is currently undertaking a health services research PHD exploring inequities in access to cancer treatment.