Dr Anna Lawless is a Radiation Oncology Fellow at the Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney. She is a member of the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) Head and Neck and Skin Cancer working party and the Australia and New Zealand Head & Neck Cancer Society (ANZHNCS).

Dr Lawless is currently enrolled in a PhD through the University of Sydney investigating de-escalation strategies in HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancers and is the principal investigator of a prospective trial utilising FMISO PET to select patients for radiation dose de-escalation. She has successfully published in a number of internationally recognised peer-reviewed oncology journals.