Dame Lesley Howard Rees DBE[1] is a British professor, medical doctor, and endocrinologist.
She was Dean of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (Bart's) from 1989 to 1995, the first and only woman to hold this post.
[5] Rees also served as Secretary General of the International Society of Endocrinology,[6] the first time the post was held outside the USA.
An innovative development was the building of a Clinical Skills Laboratory for medical students, nursing and midwifery training.
[7] This was modelled on a laboratory at the University of Limburg in Maastricht which had been shown to raise the performance of clinical skills in medical students.