Don McLeod is Director of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, Honorary Senior Research Officer at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, and Associate Professor of the University of Queensland. After gaining his FRACP in 2010, Don undertook a Master of Public Health in Quantitative Methods at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA, followed by a research fellowship in thyroid cancer in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA. He was awarded his PhD in thyroid epidemiology in 2015. Don’s main research interests are thyroid cancer and autoimmunity and he oversees clinical trials within the RBWH Endocrine Research Unit. He serves as an Editorial Board member of Thyroid, Endocrine Practice, and JCEM Case Reports.