Laird completed a clinical fellowship in lung and head & neck malignancies at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia in 2016. He then returned to New Zealand and has been caring for patients with thoracic cancers in Auckland at Te Puriri o Te Ora, Auckland Hospital and Canopy Cancer Care since 2016. He is the current New Zealand representative on the TOGA scientific committee, past chair and founding member of NZ Lung Oncology Special Interest Group, current president of the New Zealand Society for Oncology and senior lecturer in the Department of Oncology at the University of Auckland. His research interests include lung cancer, equity and precision oncology.