Lachlan Miles MBBS, PhD, FANZCA

Lachlan F. Miles is a Staff Specialist and Deputy Head of Research in the Department of Anaesthesia at Austin Health, and an Honorary Principal Fellow of the Department of Critical Care at the University of Melbourne. His subspecialty clinical practice involves cardiothoracic and major hepatobiliary anesthesia (including liver transplant) and peri-operative medicine.

Lachlan completed clinical fellowships at Austin Health and at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom before commencing as a Consultant anesthetist in 2016. He holds certification status in advanced peri-operative transoesophageal echocardiography from the National Board of Echocardiography in the United States.

​Lachlan balances his clinical interests with a substantial research portfolio. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor David Story and Associate Professor Kate Burbury in 2021. His thesis examined the identification and management of non-anemic iron deficiency in patients undergoing cardiac and colorectal surgery. He has published > 30 original manuscripts in high-impact anesthesia and general medicine journals in the last 5 years and is the principal chief investigator of the IDOCS and NATO studies, the latter of which is endorsed by the ANZCA Clinical Trials Network. He is a previous winner of the Douglas Renton Medal for the Primary Fellowship Examination, awarded by ANZCA in 2010, the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Emerging Researcher Award in 2019, and the Gilbert Brown Prize, awarded by ANZCA for the best free paper at the Annual Scientific Meeting in 2020. He is an Editor of the journal Anaesthesia Reports.