Diah Martina is a faculty staff at the Division of Psychosomatic and Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, and a medical staff in the academic top-referral national general hospital ̶ Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Indonesia. She did her Palliative Care Fellowship in 2017 in Erasmus MC Cancer Institute as part of the ESMO Fellowship Award Program and became the first Indonesian recipient of an International Development and Education Award in Palliative Care (IDEA-PC) from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Her research focus and interest are mainly on palliative care, serious illness communication, cultural sensitivity, spirituality, and capacity building. Diah takes part in many international research collaborations with Asian countries, Europeans, USA and Africa. She had published several publications, including a declaration of advance care planning in Asia. Diah also actively contributes as a council member for ASCO Asia Pacific Regional Council.