Lesley Campbell
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Lesley Veronica Campbell AM is an Australian endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine with a special interest in clinical diabetes, appetite and metabolism. She is a principal research fellow at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia.[1]
Campbell graduated from Sydney University in 1968.[2] She became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1973. She joined the Garvan Institute 1979 as a principal researcher and has remained there since and is the group leader of their Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Studies program.[3] She is also director of diabetes services at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney.[4] She was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. Campbell published more than 240 scientific papers.[2] She is an advocate of an attitude that does not stigmatise those that are overweight or the parents of obese children and points out that 30% of those considered as obese are actually in good health.[4][5][6]
