Dr McQuilten is a consultant haematologist at Monash Health and a NHMRC Early Career Fellow at Monash University. She is the Deputy-Director of the Transfusion Research Unit and a senior research fellow with the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC). Her other appointments include Co-Chair of the Supportive Care Group for the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group. Dr McQuilten is a lead investigator on a number of national clinical registries in the areas of transfusion, bone marrow failure and blood cancers, which include rare disease registries.