Dr Katherine Lachlan

MBChB, MRCPCH, FRCP

Training and education

• MBChB including pre-medical year - Manchester University, UK, 1998
  (honours in medicine, psychiatry and public health)
• MRCPCH (member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) - UK, 2001
• CCT (certificate of completion of training) in clinical genetics - 2006
• FRCP (fellow of the Royal College of Physicians) - UK, 2014
• PGCert leadership - Southampton Solent University, 2016

Experience

Dr Lachlan became a consultant in clinical genetics in 2007, having completed her specialist registrar training in the genetics department here in Southampton.

Dr Lachlan covers the Winchester and Basingstoke Paediatric Genetics Clinics. She specialises in the genetic diagnosis of people with congenital malformations, learning difficulties and differences of sex development, and in the clinical interpretation and significance of genetic test results.

Research

Dr Lachlan special interest is diagnosis and management of patients with PTEN Hamartoma Tumour Syndrome, with her interest originating from the time of her research project as a Registrar, back in 2003, when she travelled around the UK, studying patients and their family members diagnosed with PHTS.

Dr Lachlan is a founding Trustee and medical advisor for the PTEN-UKI patient support charity and a member of the ClinGen PTEN Expert Panel organized by the ClinGen Hereditary Cancer Clinical Domain Working Group. She is the Lead for the NHSE PTEN Hamartoma Tumour Syndrome Rare Disease Clinical Network.

Dr Lachlan has many peer reviewed publications on Genetics and Rare Disease
ORCID ID 0000-0002-3816-7346

Contact

You can contact Dr Lachlan by emailing GeneticsTeam@uhs.nhs.uk or by calling 023 8120 6170.