Person
Campbell, Lesley Veronica
AM FRACP
- Occupation
- Endocrinologist and Medical scientist
Summary
Lesley Campbell is an endocrinologist whose research focuses on clinical diabetes, appetite and metabolism. She has made major discoveries in the fields of obesity and insulin resistance. Investigations of type 2 diabetes have suggested genetic variation may indicate potential preventative strategies. With Edward Kraegen she developed a world-first artificial pancreas that could be used to experimentally study type 1 diabetes. Other research has been on Prader-Willi Syndrome, a genetic disorder associated with an insatiable appetite leading to obesity, behavioural problems and intellectual disability. For 25 years she was Director of the Diabetes Centre and Services at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Campbell is active in professional organisations, being a founding member and President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity, and council member of the Australian Diabetes Society.
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Chronology
- 1968
- Education - MB BS, University of Sydney
- 1973
- Education - Member, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1973
- Education - Member, Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom
- 1974
- Career position - Registrar, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1977 -
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1979 - 1984
- Career position - Research Fellow, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
- 1979 - 1987
- Career position - Visiting Medical Officer, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1984 - 1987
- Career position - Associate Clinical Research Physician, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
- 1987 - 1991
- Career position - Deputy Director, Diabetes Centre and Services, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1987 - 1993
- Career position - Staff Specialist, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1988 -
- Career position - Senior Research Physician, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Unit, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
- 1989 -
- Award - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom
- 1990 - 1992
- Career position - Deputy Chairman, Department of Endocrinology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1991 - ?
- Career position - Senior Lecturer, Medicine, Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales
- 1991
- Career position - Foundation Member, Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity (ASSO)
- 1991 - 1999
- Career position - Member of Council, Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity
- 1991 - 2015
- Career position - Director, Diabetes Centre and Services, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1992 - 1994
- Career position - Member of Council, Australian Diabetes Society
- 1992 - 1996
- Career position - Chairman, Department of Endocrinology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1993 - 1995
- Career position - Deputy Chairman, Division of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1995 - 1997
- Career position - Chairman, Division of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1998 - 1999
- Career position - President, Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity
- 2000
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, Harvard School of Population Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- 2001 -
- Career position - Professor in Medicine, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
- 2001
- Award - Medal, Swedish Society of Medicine
- 2006
- Career position - Member, Organising Committee, 10th World Congress on Obesity, Sydney
- 2008
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to medicine as a clinician, academic and researcher, in the field of endocrinology, to the development of the Diabetes Centre at St Vincent's hospital, Sydney, and through professional organisations
- 2013 -
- Award - Honorary Life Member, Australian Diabetes Society
- 2014
- Award - Sir Kempson Maddox Award, Diabetes Australia - N.S.W.
- 2022
- Award - Lifetime Achievement Award, Australian Diabetes Society
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Campbell, Lesley and Rubin, Alan L., Diabetes for dummies (Milton, Qld: Wiley Publishing, 2011), 355 pp. Details
Resource Sections
- Anon, 'RACP Fellow Professor Lesley Campbell AM awarded prestigious Australian Diabetes Society Lifetime Achievement Award', in Royal Australasian College of Physicians quarterly, 2021. https://racpquarterly.racp.edu.au/racp-fellow-professlesley-campbell-am-awarded-achievement-award. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 13 October 2026