Leslie Lazarus

He graduated in Medicine in 1953 and after clinical training at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney was admitted to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (MRACP) in 1958 and as a Fellow in 1968.

[1] In 1962, Lazarus was appointed Staff Clinical Endocrinologist to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and established its first endocrine laboratory.

[4] In 1988, he was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) "For service to medicine, particularly in the field of medical research".

In this role he visited all of the Australian and New Zealand capital cities to give the Roman Lecture for 1993, on "The Clinical Biochemist as Information Scientist".

In 1986, the Garvan Institute became one of only five ‘centres of research excellence’ in Australia to receive NHMRC ‘block funding’.

Leslie Lazarus (left) and professor John Shine looking at a model of the Garvan Institute building (back right) and then-proposed adjoining facilities.