Lachlan Mcdowell

Dr Lachlan McDowell is a Consultant Radiation Oncologist at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. He is the current co-chair of the HNCIG Young Investigators subcommittee and the deputy of the Guidelines and Protocols committee. He also serves as the deputy chair of the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) Head and Neck and Skin Cancer working party. He has been an associate section editor of the head and neck section of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics since 2021.

Dr McDowell’s main research interests include clinical outcomes, health-related quality of life, and patient-reported outcome measures in head and neck cancers. He is currently enrolled in a Doctor of Philosophy focussed on patient-reported outcome measures, quality of life, and sexual health in human papillomavirus-associated (HPV) oropharyngeal cancer. He has successfully published in several internationally recognized oncology journals including Cancer, International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. Radiotherapy and Oncology, Oral Oncology, and Head & Neck. He has twice been the recipient of the Victorian and Tasmanian Excellence in Teaching awards (2018, 2020) with honorable mentions in 2016 and 2017.