Dr Lachlan McMichael (MBBS MMed(Clin Epi) FRACP) is a kidney specialist & early career clinician-researcher. His clinical work is based at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia as a consultant kidney specialist and transplant physician. He is a PhD candidate at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute/Australia & New Zealand Dialysis & Transplant Registry and a research fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research program is focused on measuring healthcare system performance with a focus on patient access to kidney transplantation and international system comparisons.