Meet the Team

Dr Duncan McLellan

MBBS (UWA) MRCP FRACP FRCPA
Head of Department Microbiology
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Biography

Dr Duncan McLellan is a Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious diseases Physician and has been with Western Diagnostic Pathology since 2004. In 2012 he was appointed to his current position as Head of Department, Microbiology.

Duncan graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1991. From there he embarked on Physician training (sub-speciality of Infectious Diseases) at Royal Perth Hospital. He also undertook a Fellowship in Infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee, USA from 1998 to 2000.  Duncan subsequently trained in Clinical Microbiology at PathWest, receiving FRCPA in January 2004.

Currently, Duncan is Head of Department (Microbiology) at Western Diagnostic Pathology and works as a Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Joondalup Health Campus, Mount Hospital and SJOG Murdoch Healthcare.

Special Interests

  • Diagnostic microbiology
  • Fever of unknown origin
  • Mycobacterial and fungal infections
  • Travel-related infections
  • Osteoarticular
  • Antibiotic use
  • Soft tissue infections
  • Endocarditis
  • Complex genitourinary infections

Special Interests

  • Diagnostic microbiology
  • Fever of unknown origin
  • Mycobacterial and fungal infections
  • Travel-related infections
  • Osteoarticular
  • Antibiotic use
  • Soft tissue infections
  • Endocarditis
  • Complex genitourinary infections