Lesley Campbell
Lesley Veronica Campbell AM is an Australian endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine who works on diabetes, appetite and metabolism. She is a principal research fellow at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and leads the Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Studies program. She also directs diabetes services at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney and is a Professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales.
Campbell graduated from the University of Sydney in 1968. In 1973 she became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in Britain and of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
She joined the Garvan Institute in 1979 as a principal researcher and has remained there. She has published more than 240 scientific papers.
She advocates for a non-stigmatizing view of overweight and obese children and notes that about 30% of people labeled as obese are in good health.
Her honors include Fellowships with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1977 and the Royal College of Physicians in Britain in 1989.
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