Lachlan McMichael

Lachlan McMichael

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Dr Lachlan McMichael is a kidney specialist & early career clinician-researcher. His clinical work is based at Royal Adelaide Hospital 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.

Dr McMichael completed his medical degree at the University of Adelaide in 2013. He undertook Basic Physician Training at Central Adelaide Local Health Network and completed his Nephrology Advanced Training at the Central and Northern Adelaide Renal & Transplantation Service. He became a Fellow of the RACP in 2021. Dr McMichael has completed clinical & research fellowships in Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada between 2020-2023 and completed a Master of Medicine (Clinical Epidemiology) from the University of Sydney in 2022.

Dr McMichael hopes his research will inform contemporary kidney transplant practice by reducing the current variation in approaches to kidney transplant evaluation and optimising resource utilisation.

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2018 - ongoing Clinical Associate Lecturer University of Adelaide

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2023 University of Adelaide Australia PhD
    2022 - 2022 University of Sydney Australia MMed (Clin Epi)
    2008 - 2013 University of Adelaide Australia MBBS

  • Postgraduate Training
    Date Title Institution Country
    2022 Kidney Transplant Research Fellow University of British Columbia Canada
    2021 - 2022 Kidney Transplant Fellowship University of British Columbia Canada
    2020 - 2021 General Nephrology Fellowship University of British Columbia Canada

  • Certifications
    Date Title Institution name Country
    2021 Fellow Royal Australasian College of Physicians Australia

  • Research Interests
    Epidemiology Health Care Administration Health Economics Nephrology and Urology

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2024 McMichael, L. C., Gulyani, A., & Clayton, P. A. (2024). Assessing survival post-kidney transplantation in Australia: A multivariable prediction model. Nephrology, 29(3), 143-153.
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    2024 McMichael, L. C., Gill, J., Kadatz, M., Lan, J., Landsberg, D., Johnston, O., . . . Gill, J. S. (2024). Characteristics of a High Functioning Organ Procurement and Transplant in A Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant System. Kidney Medicine, 100812.
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    2023 Kadatz, M. J. J., Gill, J., Gill, J., Lan, J. H. H., McMichael, L. C. C., Chang, D. T. T., & Gill, J. S. S. (2023). The Benefits of Preemptive Transplantation Using High-Kidney Donor Profile Index Kidneys. CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY, 18(5), 634-643.
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    2023 Irish, G., McMichael, L., Kadatz, M., Boudville, N., Campbell, S., Chadban, S., . . . Clayton, P. (2023). The living kidney donor profile index fails to discriminate allograft survival: implications for its use in kidney paired donation programs. American Journal of Transplantation, 23(2), 232-238.
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    2022 Evans, R. D. R., Lan, J. H., Kadatz, M., Brar, S., Chang, D. T., McMichael, L., . . . Gill, J. S. (2022). Use and Outcomes of Induction Therapy in Well-Matched Kidney Transplant Recipients. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 17(2), 271-279.
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    2021 McMichael, L. C., Carroll, R. P., Rao, N. N., & Coates, P. T. (2021). Rapidly progressive metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary 2 months following deceased donor renal transplantation—Donor- or recipient-derived?. Nephrology, 26(2), 204.
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    2016 McMichael, L. C., Zambrano, S. C., & Crawford, G. B. (2016). The physician as patient in palliative care: A retrospective case-note audit. Palliative Medicine, 30(9), 889-892.
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  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2022 Irish, G., Chang, D., Chadban, S., Boudville, N., Campbell, S., Kanellis, J., . . . Clayton, P. (2022). Donor Factors Do Not Discriminate Living Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes and Should Not Be Used to Promote the Use of Compatible Pairs in Kidney Paired Donation Programs.. In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION Vol. 22 (pp. 546-547). WILEY.
    2022 McMichael, L., Chang, D., Kadatz, M., & Gill, J. (2022). Moving Beyond the Waitlist in Measurement of Access in Kidney Transplantation. In American Journal of Transplantation. Boston: Wiley.
    2022 McMichael, L., Gulyani, A., & Clayton, P. (2022). Examining post-transplant survival in End-Stage Kidney Disease patients – a multivariable prediction model.. In https://conference.cst-transplant.ca/speakers.html. Banff, Canada.
    2020 McMichael, L., Gulyani, A., Dansie, K., & Clayton, P. (2020). CLINICIAN PERSPECTIVES ON FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DELAYED WAIT-LISTING FOR DECEASED DONOR RENAL TRANSPLANTATION IN AUSTRALIA. In TRANSPLANTATION Vol. 104 (pp. S216-S217). ELECTR NETWORK: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS.
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    2019 McMichael, L., Chang, S., Mollee, P., Gibbs, S., Horvath, N., Crail, S., & Jobert, A. (2019). LYSOZYME AMYLOIDOSIS – TWO NOVEL CASES WITH NEWLY DESCRIBED GENETIC MUTATIONS. In Kidney International Reports. Melbourne: Elsevier.
    2018 Mcmichael, L., Murthy, S., Irish, G., Chang, S., Coates, P. T., & Mcdonald, S. (2018). RITUXIMAB INDUCTION SUCCESSFULLY PREVENTING MESANGIOCAPILLARY GLOMERULONEPHRITIS RECURRENCE IN TRANSPLANTATION. In NEPHROLOGY Vol. 23 (pp. 100). WILEY.
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