Associate Professor Lachlan McDowell is a radiation oncologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, specialising in head and neck and cutaneous cancers. He trained at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and completed fellowship training at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. His PhD from the University of Melbourne focused on quality of life and unmet needs in HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer. He is Head and Neck Section Editor for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology · Biology · Physics (Red Journal), chairs the TROG Head and Neck and Skin Working Party, serves on the HNCIG Board, and has authored more than 100 publications.