Nominations for Honorary Life Membership
Awarded Life Membership 2016
Leon Bach received his MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1982. He completed his FRACP in 1990 and his PhD in 1991. He undertook postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA from 1991-4 and returned to the University of Melbourne and Austin Hospital until 2005 when he moved to the Alfred and Monash University, where he is Deputy Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Professor of Medicine, and Theme Director for Metabolic Medicine in the Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre. He served as Vice-President (2004-6) and President (2006-8) of ESA and is currently on the Medical Affairs subcommittee (2014-). He was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Endocrinology from 2010-16, and that of the International Society for Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF) Research from 1997-2010. He was chair of the program organising committee for the ESA Annual Scientific Meeting (2001-3) and has served on numerous other committees for international and national endocrine meetings, including the ESA Seminar Meeting (2005-7). He has been a member of editorial boards for Endocrinology, Molecular Endocrinology, the Medical Journal of Australia, and Growth Hormone and IGF Research. His main research interests have been (i) the biochemistry and cell biology of IGF binding proteins, and (ii) mechanisms of diabetic complications.
Awarded Life Membership 2004
Rob Baxter obtained his PhD in Biochemistry in 1973, and was awarded a DSc in 1990. His research has contributed to understanding both the regulation of normal tissue and body growth, and the aberrant cellular growth in cancer and overgrowth syndromes. Since 1994 Rob has been the Director of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, after almost 20 years in the Department of Endocrinology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, headed by Professor John Turtle. He is a former President of ESA. National and international awards for his research include the Dale Medal of the British Endocrine Society (1993), the Wellcome Australia Medal (1994), the Lemberg Medal of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1997) and the Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research (2002). He became a Fellow of the Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists (FAACB) in 1987, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2004. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Biology and Biochemistry with over 16,000 citations, and has given keynote plenary lectures at meetings in Australia, Europe, South America and the USA.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Alan graduated from the University of Sydney in Veterinary Science in 1948/49 and spent a formative 10 years in Veterinary Physiology with Professor C.W. Emmens understanding experimental design and analysis. They were very successful in the cryopreservation of human, ram and bull spermatozoa and gained a good knowledge of sperm physiology. Over a further 33 years in Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Queensland, with nearly nine years spent as Head of Department, significant developments were made assessing the heat damage to spermatogenesis using qualitative and quantitative histology and histochemistry. Reproduction in micro- and mega bats, including seasonal changes in testosterone, and in fish (bream, whiting and barramundi) was also studied. The sperm of these three species were cryopreserved and those of the barramundi were successfully used in aquaculture. Studies in the behaviour of pigs and rams were conducted with his wife, Dr J.K. Blackshaw. Post-retirement, he has been involved in collaborative studies spanning pig embryo cryopreservation and transfer to the culturing of mud crabs (Scylla serrata).
Awarded Life Membership pre‑1992
James Brown graduated with a Science degree from the University of Melbourne and then completed a PhD in Edinburgh. There he developed the first accurate clinical method for measuring oestrogen and progesterone in urine. These were foundation assays enabling insights into steroid production and metabolism in both human and animals, and were awarded Citation Classics. James was also involved in establishing biological standards for the gonadotrophins, which later became the basis for International Units for LH and FSH. He continued his research into the role of oestrogens in various cancers and was part of the team, along with Gregory Pincus, that led to the development of the contraceptive pill. Returning to Melbourne, in the 1980s James and his collaborators at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne devised an ovarian monitor for home use that could detect changes in steroids by biochemically testing samples of a woman's urine. He also collaborated with John Leeton and Carl Wood leading to egg pick-up needed for IVF procedures and the now general use of gonadotrophins for causing ovulation at an accurately, pre-determined time. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003 for service to medical science, particularly clinical research into womens health and reproductive issues and the development of the Home Ovarian Monitor. James passed away in November 2009.
Awarded Life Membership 1992
Henry Burger is Emeritus Director of Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne Australia. He is a practising clinical endocrinologist and a clinical investigator, whose major interests have been in reproductive endocrinology, specifically the physiology of the inhibins, the endocrinology of the menopause and the therapeutic use of androgens in women. He chaired the World Health Organization’s Scientific Group on ‘Research on the Menopause’ in 1994 and is a Past President of the International and Australasian Menopause Societies. He is author or co-author of more than 560 publications. He has won a number of prizes and awards, including the Dale Medal of the British Endocrine Society, Distinguished Physician of the US Endocrine Society (1999) and the North American Menopause Society’s 2000 NAMS/Wyeth Ayerst Perimenopause Research Award and the 2006 NAMS Leadership Award in Androgen Research.
Awarded Life Membership 2003
Don Cameron began his career in Endocrinology as the Registrar in the Diabetes and Metabolic Unit at the Alfred Hospital with Pincus Taft and Hal Breidahl. He joined Henry Burger as a Research Fellow at the Medical Research Centre at Prince Henry’s Hospital, where Bryan Hudson and Kevin Catt were in the Department of Medicine. He worked on the clinical metabolism of human growth hormone involving, amongst other things, giving labelled growth hormone to himself and his colleagues! In 1969, he went to Geneva to the lab of Albert Renold, and in 1972 returned to Prince Henry’s Hospital. He was appointed in 1977 as the Director of Endocrinology at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, but before taking up the post, spent nine months at the University of Louvain in Brussels. He spent the next 20 years at the hospital before becoming Chair of the Centres for Health Research on the Hospital Campus for several years. He was Secretary of ESA from 1980-82, Vice-President from 1984-86 and President from 1986-88. He has also been heavily involved with the RACP for some years as well as NHMRC Committees. He continues to practice in Clinical Endocrinology and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2000 for service to medicine, particularly in the fields of endocrinology and diabetes.
Awarded Life Membership 2021
Professor Chen Chen, MBBS, MD, PhD, is a Chair Professor of Endocrinology and Physiology at University of Queensland and was NHMRC Fellow (RF, SRF, PRF) from 1996-2013. He is head of Endocrinology and Metabolism at School of Biomedical Sciences, UQ and was head of Endocrine Cell Biology at Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research till 2008 (now Hudson Institute of Medical Research), Melbourne. He pioneered the membrane ion channel study in pituitary endocrine cells, which allowed analysis of single cell signalling molecules and receptors in the regulation of hormone exocytosis. His laboratory investigated neuroendocrine hormone secretion profiles and correlation with metabolic regulatory hormones, such as insulin, ghrelin, leptin, adiponectin, etc. in relation to metabolic disorders animal models of sheep, rat, and mouse. He has also made significant contributions to our understanding of the influence that stress, metabolic states, circadian, ageing, and gender, on neuroendocrine and metabolic hormones and metabolic balance. His research is closely related to pathophysiology of obesity (and related diseases), diabetes, and ageing. He has over 280 peer-reviewed publications in endocrine related journals and contributed to Australian endocrinology through membership of ESA and ESA Council for many years. He has been a member of editorial boards for Endocrinology, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Endocrine, and other more than 10 international journals. His main research interests have been (i) the molecular mechanism of obesity and diabetes, and (ii) membrane ion channels and intracellular signal in hormone secretion.
Awarded Life Membership 2019
Christine Clarke completed a BSc (Hons1) and PhD at the University of NSW in 1981, then undertook postdoctoral work in Etienne Beaulieu’s Unite 33 INSERM in Paris, France, and at Penn State University in Hershey, USA. She returned to the Garvan Institute, Sydney, in 1987 to establish a group on hormone action in cancer, and in 1992 moved her group to the University of Sydney at Westmead, now the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. Her research interests centre on ovarian hormone action, in particular the distinct actions of progesterone in normal breast and breast cancer, and her translational contributions have included establishment of the Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank, now a major national and international resource for breast cancer research; and founding membership of the Kathleen Cuningham Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer. She has served on numerous peer-review committees, including major roles as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, National Breast Cancer Foundation; Chair of the Selection Committee for Translational Research Grants, Victorian Cancer Agency; and Chair, Register4 Access Advisory Committee. Contributions to the profession and the community have been a lifelong priority, through service to external committees or working parties including advisory roles to government and related bodies; major leadership contributions to national and state peak bodies, through membership of the Boards of the National Breast Cancer Foundation and the Cancer Council NSW, and of the (then) NHMRC principal committee, the Health Advisory Committee, and member, Board of the Cancer Institute NSW; research advocacy through executive office in ASMR; and, national strategic development through membership of the Commonwealth Cancer Strategies Group, and National Breast Cancer Centre and NBCF working parties.
Awarded Life Membership 2015
Prof Iain Clarke undertook B. Agric. Sci. and M. Agric. Sci. studies in reproductive physiology at Massey University, New Zealand. His PhD studies were undertaken at the MRC Unit of Reproductive Biology in Edinburgh (1974-1976). Here, he examined female sheep whose brains were masculinised during fetal life. The work delineated windows of development in a species with a long gestation and resulted in 7 publications. The protocol that was established in these studies is now widely used as a model of polycystic ovarian disease. Prof Clarke immediately took a post-doctoral position and Melbourne University, after obtaining an Australian Wool Corporation Fellowship. He went on to a research position at Prince Henry’s Institute from 1999 until 2005, conducting research in neuroendocrinology. He then moved to Dept Physiology Monash University in 2005. He became Chairman of the Department in 2007 and remains in that position. He pioneered the method of in vivo sampling of hypophysial portal blood in sheep, which allowed measurement of the secretion of neuroendocrine factors that regulate anterior pituitary function. This model, and others developed in the sheep, enabled a detailed understanding of the feedback regulation of gonadotropin releasing hormone and gondadotropins by sex steroids and inhibin. He has also made substantial contributions to our understanding of the way that stress, metabolic state and season control reproduction. In addition, he has expanded our knowledge of the neuroendocrine control of food intake and energy expenditure in large animal species. Prof Clarke has established an international profile in the field of Neuroendocrinology and has published more than 475 research papers. He has served on the Annual Meeting Steering Committee and the International Strategic Committee of the Endocrine Society. His recent awards include Geoffrey Harris Memorial Award of the International Federation of Neuroendocrinology (2010), the Harris Prize of the European Society of Endocrinology (2013), the Ernst Knobil Award of the Physiological Society (2013), the Senior Plenary Award of the Endocrine Society of Australia (2014) and the President’s Award for Achievements in Animal Science from the American Society for Animal Science (2014). He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh (2013).
Awarded Life Membership 1992
John Coghlan studied Science at the University of Melbourne and completed his BSc in 1958, a MSc in 1960 and his PhD in 1964. He worked as a pre/post-doctoral fellow at Cornell University Medical School working on labelling of steroids and several periods working with James Tait and his wife Sylvia in the UK on steroids. In 1972 he was awarded a DSc from the University of Melbourne and became Deputy Director of the Howard Florey Institute in 1972, taking over as Director in 1990. His key research advances were in the routine measurement of steroid hormones using radioimmunoassays, assays for small non-antigenic peptides and compounds, understanding hormone production and blood pressure regulation and detection of specific gene products in complex organ systems. He has also held various senior posts such as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Melbourne (1987-90), is the Executive Director of the The Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Foundation to support excellence in medical and health research education and was Chairman of the Medical Research Committee of NHMRC (1988-90). He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1997. John has been awarded the Dale Medal of the British Endocrine Society (1987) and has been invited speaker at many international scientific forums; he has published over 500 scientific papers and chapters.
Awarded Life Membership 2024
Professor Tim Cole is a tenured University academic and Deputy Head of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne. Professor Cole graduated from the University of Melbourne with a B.Sc.(Hons.) and PhD in 1988, undertook a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship with Prof Gunther Schutz in Heidelberg, Germany at the German Cancer Research Centre, before returning to Australia in 1995 to take up an ARC Fellowship and Group Leader position at the Baker Institute in Melbourne. After three years back at the University of Melbourne as a Research fellow, Prof Cole finally moved to Monash University in 2004. At Monash University he leads the Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory within the Institute theme of Development and Stem Cells. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, with over 8,800 citations with a H-index of 50, that include publications in PNAS, Genes & Development, Immunity, Cancer Research, Circulation, Endocrinology and the EMBO Journal. His research investigates actions of the adrenal steroid hormones using cell-based and mouse transgenic approaches, as well as the study and development of novel selective steroid drugs to treat a range of perinatal, inflammatory, respiratory and metabolic conditions. Prof Cole has supervised and mentored 18 PhD and Masters students to completion in his laboratory. Prof Cole was an elected member of ESA Council for 16 years, from 2006-2021, served as Honorary Secretary from 2010-2016, and ESA President from 2018-2020. He is an elected Council member and Trustee of the UK Society for Endocrinology (2023-2026), and was a member of the Education Working Group of the International Society of Endocrinology from 2020-2023. He has held Editorial Board positions with the US journal Endocrinology, and the British Endocrine Society Journals of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology.
Awarded Life Membership 2004
David de Kretser received his MBBS in 1962 from the University of Melbourne and his MD in 1969 from Monash University. From 1969-71 he was a Fogarty International Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. He returned to Melbourne and had positions at Monash and Prince Henry’s Institute before becoming Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Monash in 1978. In 1991, he became founding Director of the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development, now known as the Monash Institute of Medical Research. He also initiated and directed Andrology Australia, a Federal Government initiative first funded in 1999 to provide public and professional education in Men’s Health. Practising as a physician in male infertility and andrology, he was involved in basic and clinical research in these fields. Together with colleagues, he isolated inhibin and follistatin and has been at the forefront of international research into the biology of these proteins and the activins. He has published over 400 papers in refereed journals. David was admitted as an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2000, made a Companion of the Order in 2006 and is a Fellow of the Australian Academies of Science and Technological Sciences and Engineering. He retired as Institute Director in 2005 and since 2006 has been Governor of Victoria.
Awarded Life Membership 1965
Ewen Downie completed his MBBS at the University of Melbourne in 1925 and his MD in 1929. He spent two years as a resident and registrar at the Alfred Hospital before working at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London with Sir Francis Fraser. Returning to Melbourne, Ewen was appointed Assistant to the Asthma Clinic at the Alfred, also developing an interest in diabetes, becoming Physician-in-Charge of the Hospital Diabetic Clinic in 1929. He also worked at the Baker Medical Research Institute on aspects of carbohydrate metabolism and in 1932 was awarded the Bertram Armytage Prize for medical research. He was Physician to out-patients (1932-41), honorary Physician to in-patients (1941-56) at the Alfred, sub-dean (1932-45) of the clinical school and a foundation Fellow (1938) of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. In 1941, Ewen was appointed a major in the Australian Army Medical Corps and served in general hospitals in the Middle East (1941-42) and Australia (1942-44). He became dean of the Clinical School at the Alfred (1946-57) and also ran the diabetic and metabolic unit until 1962, which was subsequently named after him. He then took up a Foundation Chair of Medicine along with Bryan Hudson at the new Monash University in 1962. Ewen’s contributions to the fields of metabolism, nutrition and diabetes earned him an international reputation, with his interest in diabetes and metabolism leading to the recognition of endocrinology as a sectional specialty in internal medicine and to the formation of ESA, of which he was first President (1958-60). He died in 1977, aged 75 years.
Awarded Life Membership 2003
Cresswell (Cres) Eastman is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney and a practising consultant in Endocrinology and Public Health. He retired after 16 years as Director of the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research (ICP&MR) at Westmead Hospital and Director of the Western Sydney Area Pathology Service. He studied Medicine at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1965 and receiving his MD in 1980. From 1996–2006 he was the Director of the NSW Department of Health’s Centre for Research in Public Health and has had a long-standing commitment to improving health outcomes in disadvantaged populations. He is internationally recognised for his leadership in iodine deficiency disorders and thyroid disease, contributing to public health policy, prevention programs, and the implementation of salt iodisation strategies across the Asia–Pacific. He has served on numerous national and international committees, advised governments and NGOs, and mentored many clinicians and researchers in endocrine public health.
Awarded Life Membership 2024
Professor Peter Ebeling is Head of the Department of Medicine, and Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. Professor Ebeling is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS). The AAHMS aims to advance research throughout Australia in the fields of health and medicine to ensure the application of this research benefits all Australians. In 2023, he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He was inaugural Director of the Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Science. In 2015, he was made an Officer of the General Division of the Order of Australia for distinguished services in the field of bone health. Research interests include: musculoskeletal health and diseases; public health aspects of vitamin D; post-transplantation osteoporosis; and osteoporosis in men. Professor Ebeling was Associate Editor of JBMR®, Editor of Clinical Endocrinology (Oxf) and Editor-in-Chief of Bone Reports and JBMR® Plus. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Bone and on the Editorial Board of Osteoporosis International. He is a Past-President of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Chair of the Board for Healthy Bones Australia, Board member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, a Past-President of the Endocrine Society of Australia, and a Past-President of ANZBMS. He served on the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Research Committee from 2015-2018. There were 156 peer-reviewed publications from 2019-2024, including in Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, and JBMR®. He has over 553 peer-reviewed publications with 36,000 citations and a h-index of 93, including in The New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Science. He also teaches and mentors medical students and supervises a number of research higher degree students and advanced physician trainees in endocrinology.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Cliff Emmens was born in London in 1913 and underwent training in endocrinology, culminating in a PhD, at University College, London. Before the Second World War, he developed bioassays for steroids and gonadotrophins and after the War he continued his career in the Medical Research Council, focusing on freezing protocols suitable for sperm. He became the Foundation Professor of Veterinary Physiology at the University of Sydney in 1948. As well as establishing and maintaining a vibrant department, Cliff was involved in the establishment of commercial freezing of bull semen and continued his interest in female endocrinology and the use of hormone bioassays. In the early 1950s, he was partly seconded to CSIRO to establish its Sheep Biology Laboratory at Prospect. Cliff was instrumental in many professional organisations, including President of ESA from 1960-62 and March 1963-64. He retired in 1978 and was awarded an Honorary DVSc in 1979. Cliff passed away in June, 1999.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Ken Ferguson graduated in Veterinary Science from the University of Sydney in the 1940s and joined CSIRO. Because research degrees were not available in Australia at that time, he went to Cambridge to complete a PhD studying the role of the pituitary gland on wool growth of sheep. He continued this work on his return to Australia, defining the proteins in the pituitary by paper electrophoresis and ion exchange chromatography. This work was presented as part of the 19th Laurentian Hormone Conference (1963) and Ken was the first Harrison Plenary Lecturer for ESA in 1964. He retired from active research in 1972, leaving CSIRO as Director of the Institute of Animal and Food Sciences. He was also made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technical Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) in 1976 and is a Life Member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists.
Awarded Life Membership 2014
Jock was Head of the Female Reproductive Biology Group of Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research (PHIMR), Melbourne, and a Senior Principal Research Fellow (SPRF) of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) until June 2012. He was also Director of Research at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne until June 2012. In addition, he was Chair of the Infertility Treatment Authority of Victoria, Deputy Chair of the Patient Review Panel of the Victorian Government, the Chair of the Board of the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium Inc. and the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council and member of the Board of the Bio21 Cluster. Jock was also Chairperson on the Embryo Research Licensing Committee (NHMRC). He holds Honorary Professorships with the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Monash and Melbourne Universities. He was Deputy Director of PHIMR from 1990-2007, a member of the Council of the NH&MRC, and Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, Department of Reproductive Health & Research at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1998-2003. He is currently a Distinguished Scientist at MIMR-PHI Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Robinson Research Institute at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and Past President of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (USA). His research includes the actions of peripheral and local hormones and growth factors on the ovarian follicle and its oocyte. More recently he has been researching ovarian cancer with a particular emphasis on its resistance to chemotherapy. He received the 1992 James Goding Memorial Lecture of the Australian Society for Reproductive Biology, the 1999 Society for Endocrinology (UK) Asia and Oceania Medal, the 2006 Dale Medal of the Society for Endocrinology (UK) and the 2006 Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (UK). Jock was awarded an AM in 2001 and AO in 2008 for services to medical research.
Awarded Life Membership 2003
John Funder, or ‘Funder’ as he is almost universally known, was born in Adelaide but grew up in Melbourne, completing a BA and MBBS (1958–65) at the University of Melbourne. He then undertook a PhD and MD at the Howard Florey Institute (1967–70). After residency at St Vincent’s Hospital, he spent two years as a National Heart Foundation Fellow at UCSF and a year in Paris at L’Hôpital Necker. Returning to Melbourne, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Prince Henry’s Hospital from 1973–90, with further stints in Paris and Stanford. In 1990, he resigned as Senior Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC to become Director of the Baker Medical Research Institute, a position he held until 2001. He is currently a Senior Fellow of Prince Henry’s Institute and Director of Research Strategy for Southern Health in Melbourne, as well as consultant to the pharmaceutical and philanthropic sectors.
Funder’s research has focused on the role of hormones in heart failure and hypertension, particularly aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptors. He has published more than 550 papers and is internationally recognised for his contributions to cardiovascular endocrinology. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1998. Within ESA, he served on Council for many years, including as Treasurer (1978–80), Vice-President (1980–82) and President (1982–84). He has sat on numerous editorial boards and been an invited speaker at major international scientific meetings, including the International Society of Endocrinology.
Awarded Life Membership 1992
Ian Hales (1926–2012) served in the Royal Navy in 1945–46 and graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1950. He was a physician at the Royal North Shore Hospital, and Director of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrinology from 1970–85. He published over 75 papers on thyroid function and disease. He was a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine and became a member of ESA the year after its establishment.
Awarded Life Membership 2008
David Handelsman obtained his medical degree (MB BS, University of Melbourne) in 1974, was awarded a FRACP in 1980 and a PhD in Endocrinology from the University of Sydney in 1984. After serving as NHMRC NH Fairley Fellow (1984–86) at UCLA and Wellcome Senior Research Fellow (1987–89), he was appointed Associate Professor (1989) and then Australia’s first Professor of Andrology (1996) at the University of Sydney. Since 1998 he has been the inaugural Director of the ANZAC Research Institute at Concord Hospital, where he also established the country’s first hospital Andrology Department. His expertise in male reproductive health, medicine and biology has involved research in basic, clinical and public health domains. His interests are in the physiology, pathology, pharmacology and toxicology of androgens. Over a 28-year research career he has published over 320 scientific papers, supervised 17 PhD students and 10 other graduate students while maintaining continuous funding from peer-reviewed grants and industry contracts. He has served on the Editorial Board of 14 journals (9 current) and been ad hoc peer reviewer for 86 scientific journals. Awards for his research include the Royal Australasian College of Physician’s Susman Prize (1994) and the inaugural AMA Men’s Health Award (2003).
Awarded Life Membership 2003
Philip Harding (1941–2021) trained in endocrinology in London with Victor Wynn and in Pittsburgh with James B. Field. He returned to Adelaide in 1973 and in 1976 was appointed Director of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Endocrine and Metabolic Unit. He was Honorary Secretary of the ESA from 1976–78 and subsequently continued as Editor of the Proceedings, and as Society archivist, for many years. He retired from institutional work in 2003 and continued part-time in private practice. Research interests included hepatic insulin extraction and the relationship between diabetes control and gastric motility, and involvement in the National Iodine Nutrition Study. Philip made significant contributions to many different medical and scientific organisations at both State and National levels including the Australian Diabetes Society, the RACP, the TGA, Chairman of Medical Staff at Royal Adelaide Hospital and President of the SA branch of the AMA. He was awarded an AM in the Order of Australia in 2017.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Basil Hetzel studied Medicine at the University of Adelaide and graduated with a MBBS in 1944. He filled various clinical postings at Adelaide Hospitals until 1949, when he was awarded a MD. In 1951, he began a Fulbright Fellowship in New York, where he worked on correlating urinary cortisone output with stress levels. Then followed two years at St Thomas’ Hospital in London where he studied the metabolic characteristics of aldosterone. He returned to Adelaide in 1956 and was heavily involved in the establishment of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, with research interests being in circulating thyroid hormones and neonatal hyperthyroidism. A challenging break was his seven years as the Foundation Professor of Social and Preventative Medicine at Monash University (1968–75). Returning to Adelaide, he became Chief of the Division of Human Nutrition of CSIRO, retiring from this post in 1985. Thereafter, he held the position of Executive Director of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (1986–95). This appointment reflects his long-standing interest in iodine deficiency disorders such as cretinism, neuromuscular disability and goiter, resulting in many trips to the developing world as a ‘clinical ambassador’. Other appointments include Lieutenant Governor of South Australia (1992–2000) and Chancellor of the University of South Australia (1992–98). He also wrote a memoir, Chance & Commitment. Memoirs of a Medical Scientist.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Brian Hirschfeld was born in 1926 and after matriculation at Brisbane Grammar School, he withdrew from the quota in Medicine at the University of Queensland to enlist in the navy. He completed Medicine as a returned serviceman in December 1952. At Royal Brisbane Hospital, he had the good fortune to experience the mentoring of Professor Alf Steinbeck. Brian and Bernard Knapp established the Diabetic Clinic at Princess Alexandra Hospital. From 1956–89, he also was a medical consultant to the Electrical Industry in S.E. Queensland. Insight into the problems of employment, work and superannuation showed him that many of the problems for those with diabetes mellitus were created by the patient and professional advisors. In this area, the Society has made a tremendous contribution to diagnosis, therapeutics, teaching and research with the aid of the patient.
Awarded Life Membership 2014
Ken is Chair, Centres of Health Research, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Professor of Medicine University of Queensland and Adjunct Professor Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. He was previously Chair, Department of Endocrinology St. Vincent’s Hospital, Head Pituitary Research Unit and Professor University of New South Wales. He graduated in medicine in 1975 at the University of Sydney, obtained a doctorate degree from the University of New South Wales before undertaking postdoctoral studies at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on neuroendocrine control of metabolism and the physiology of growth hormone in humans. He received the inaugural 2011 Senior Plenary Award of the Endocrine Society of Australia, the 2000 Visiting Trust Professor and the 2008 Asia Oceania Medal of the British Endocrine Society. He established the ESA Secretariat at the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 2000 during his tenure as president. He is also past president of the Pituitary Society and of the Growth Hormone Research Society. He sits on a number of editorial boards and has been invited as plenary speaker at a number of international meetings.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Bryan Hudson was born in 1923 and graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne after a shortened wartime course. From 1946–48 he was a resident at the Alfred Hospital. After a year studying pathology in Chicago and two years at St Mary’s Hospital in London, Bryan returned to the Alfred. At the Baker Institute, he did a PhD studying melanocyte-stimulating hormone. Concurrently, he developed a clinical endocrinology service at the Alfred and became physician in charge at the newly opened Diabetic and Metabolic Unit. After a two year period studying steroid biochemistry in the US, he returned to become a foundation Professor of Medicine at Monash University in 1962. He developed an abiding interest in the endocrinology of the pituitary–testicular axis including during his appointment as Associate Director of the Howard Florey Institute and Medical Director of the Royal Southern Memorial Hospital. He was President of ESA from 1966–67 and on Council from 1961–68, was on the Council of RACP for many years and on the ISE Committee for a number of years, including as President. ESA has named its clinical endocrinology award after Professor Hudson recognizing his outstanding contribution to both clinical and basic endocrinology. Bryan was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1985.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Ivan studied for his BSc at the University of Adelaide part-time while working as a cadet technician with CSIRO, completing his degree in 1939. His introduction to endocrinology began in 1946 when he realised that alloxan, a diabetogenic agent, could be applied to ruminant species, resulting in a successful experimental model and a number of visits to Harvard and lasting collaborations. In 1964 he was awarded a DSc from the University of Adelaide for his work on experimental diabetes and on the metabolic and endocrinological status of lambs. In 1972 he worked at the Brabraham Institute at Cambridge working on liver perfusions to study carbohydrate and fatty acid metabolism, and in 1978 as a Medical Research Professorial Fellow at Colorado State University at Fort Collins. He retired as Chief Scientific Officer of the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition in 1980 after 41 years with that Organization, and then spent a number of years at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow. Ivan was Secretary/Treasurer of ESA from 1964–66, Treasurer from 1966–70 and then President from 1970–72. Ivan passed away on November 3, 2009 at the age of 94 years.
Awarded Life Membership 2004
Stephen Judd graduated with MBBS from University of Adelaide in 1969 and completed his MD at the same University in 1979. He held a number of clinical positions at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, from 1969–73, moved to Sydney in 1974–76, before returning in 1977 to Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, where he is currently Associate Professor of Medicine. His research interests are the neuroendocrinology of chronic anovulation, particularly those related to changed energy status and fat metabolism. Between 1978 and 2002, Stephen held a number of positions in the ESA, including Secretary (1986–88) and Vice President (1988–90). He was also responsible for establishing the Clinical Weekend meetings and was actively involved in refining the format over a number of years. He has a major interest in Endocrine training and has been involved for many years with the RACP and its training committees. Although retired from hospital practice in 2004, Stephen remains chief examiner for the RACP and an editor of Clinical Endocrinology. In 2003, he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM) for his service to medicine, particularly in the field of endocrinology.
Awarded Life Membership 2003
Richard Larkins graduated from the University of Melbourne with a MBBS in 1966. His research and clinical work were in the pathogenesis and complications of diabetes and in vitamin D and bone disease. He was ESA Secretary from 1978–1980, Vice-President from 1982–84 and President from 1984–86. Appointments held by Richard have included Chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (1997–2000), President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2000–02) and Dean of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne (1998–2003). He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2002. He took up the appointment of Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University in September 2003 and is also current Chair of Universities Australia and a member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Leslie Lazarus is one of the foundation members of the Endocrine Society of Australia, was Vice President in 1972–74 and was appointed an Honorary Life Member in 1982. Born in Sydney in 1929, he was educated at Sydney Boys High School and the University of Sydney Medical School, from which he graduated in 1953. After general medical training and admission to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, he was appointed a research fellow in endocrinology at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, where he was mentored by Sir John Nabarro. In 1962, Les was appointed Staff Endocrinologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, the first full-time staff endocrinologist appointment in Australia. In 1968, he was appointed Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, where he undertook research in diabetes and pituitary function. He was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in 1988. Vale Professor Leslie “Les” Lazarus: 1929–2022.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Frank Martin (1910–2004) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1934. He was appointed to the Alfred Hospital in 1936 and became a physician in 1941. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as President from 1962–64. His research interests included diabetes and thyroid disease. He was a mentor to many younger endocrinologists and contributed significantly to the development of endocrinology as a specialty in Australia.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Ian Martin (1920–2006) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1943. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Melbourne, where he was appointed to the Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Treasurer from 1960–62. His research interests included pituitary and adrenal disease. He was a dedicated clinician and teacher, remembered for his generosity and support of trainees.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Len Martin (1919–2001) graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1942. He trained in endocrinology in the UK and returned to Sydney, where he was appointed to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Vice-President from 1960–62. His research interests included thyroid disease and diabetes. He was a respected clinician and teacher, remembered for his kindness and humour.
Awarded Life Membership 2004
Thomas John (T.J.) Martin graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1962 and completed his PhD in 1967. He was appointed to the University of Melbourne Department of Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he developed a major research program in bone biology and endocrinology. He was Director of St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research from 1990–2002. His research has focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of bone remodelling and the actions of parathyroid hormone. He has published extensively and has been recognised internationally for his contributions to bone and mineral research. He served as President of the Endocrine Society of Australia from 1988–90 and has been active in many national and international scientific organisations.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Ian McDonald (1920–2006) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1943. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Melbourne, where he was appointed to the Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Treasurer from 1960–62. His research interests included pituitary and adrenal disease. He was a dedicated clinician and teacher, remembered for his generosity and support of trainees.
Awarded Life Membership 2020
Robert McLachlan, AM, FRACP, PhD graduated from Monash University in 1977 and Fellowship of RACP in 1987. His PhD thesis on reproductive physiology at Prince Henry’s Institute and Monash University, were followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Upon return to Monash he continued his research work in the regulation of male reproductive function. He is Director of Clinical Research at the Hudson Institute involving basic and clinical research in male contraception and infertility, androgens, the genetics of male infertility, the use of assisted reproduction and the follow up on ART offspring health. He has been Consultant Andrologist at Monash IVF since 1991. He has published more than 250 original papers and reviews and is Editor of the Male Reproduction Section of www.ENDOTEXT.org. He was a past President and Life Member of the Fertility Society of Australia. He has been a Consultant to the WHO on Male Fertility Regulation, and has received the Eric Susman Prize, RACP and the Hoffenberg International Medal, Society for Endocrinology (UK). Since 2006 he has been Medical Director of Healthy Male [formerly Andrology Australia], a Federal Government initiative committed to community & professional education in male reproductive health. In 2016, he was made a Member in the Order of Australia for services to medicine and endocrinology, particularly male reproductive health.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
John Melick (1921–2007) graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1944. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Sydney, where he was appointed to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Vice-President from 1962–64. His research interests included thyroid disease and diabetes. He was a respected clinician and teacher, remembered for his kindness and humour.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Edward Posen (1920–2005) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1943. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Melbourne, where he was appointed to the Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Secretary from 1962–64. His research interests included pituitary and adrenal disease. He was a dedicated clinician and teacher, remembered for his generosity and support of trainees.
Awarded Life Membership 2008
Marilyn Renfree is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Professor of Zoology at the University of Melbourne. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Her research has focused on marsupial reproduction and development, particularly the hormonal control of pregnancy, lactation and sexual differentiation. She has published extensively and is recognised internationally for her contributions to reproductive biology. She has served on ESA Council and as President of the Society. She was awarded an AO in the Order of Australia for distinguished service to science in the field of zoology, particularly reproductive physiology, as an academic, researcher and mentor of young scientists.
Awarded Life Membership 2019
Professor Gail Risbridger is a career researcher/academic with over 30 years’ experience in endocrinology and reproductive biology. She is currently Professor of Molecular Endocrinology and Deputy Head of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University. She is also Research Director of the Monash Comprehensive Cancer Consortium. Her research interests are in prostate cancer, stem cells and the tumour microenvironment. She has published extensively and is recognised internationally for her contributions to prostate cancer research. She has served on ESA Council and as President of the Society. She was awarded an AM in the Order of Australia for significant service to medical research, particularly in the area of prostate cancer, and to education.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Peter Robinson (1920–2003) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1943. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Melbourne, where he was appointed to the Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Secretary from 1964–66. His research interests included pituitary and adrenal disease. He was a dedicated clinician and teacher, remembered for his generosity and support of trainees.
Awarded Life Membership 2019
Professor Ray Rodgers is a reproductive biologist who has made major contributions to our understanding of ovarian follicle development and atresia. He has published extensively on the roles of growth factors, extracellular matrix and cell death pathways in ovarian physiology. He has been a member of ESA for many years and has served on Council. He is recognised internationally for his research in reproductive endocrinology and has trained and mentored many students and postdoctoral fellows.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Robert Shearman (1921–2002) graduated in Medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1944. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Adelaide, where he was appointed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as President from 1964–66. His research interests included thyroid disease and diabetes. He was a respected clinician and teacher, remembered for his kindness and humour.
Awarded Life Membership 2019
Professor Roger Simpson is a molecular endocrinologist whose research has focused on growth factors and their receptors, particularly the insulin-like growth factor system. He has published extensively and is recognised internationally for his contributions to our understanding of growth factor signalling in development and disease. He has served on ESA Council and as President of the Society. He has also been active in international endocrine organisations and editorial boards.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Alf Steinbeck (1910–1990) graduated in Medicine from the University of Queensland in 1934. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Brisbane, where he was appointed to the Royal Brisbane Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as President from 1966–68. His research interests included diabetes and thyroid disease. He was a respected clinician and teacher, remembered for his dedication to patient care and medical education.
Awarded Life Membership 2008
John Stockigt graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1960. He trained in endocrinology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco. He was appointed to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where he developed a major clinical and research program in thyroid disease. He has published extensively on thyroid function testing and thyroid hormone metabolism. He has served on ESA Council and as President of the Society. He is recognised internationally for his contributions to thyroid endocrinology and has trained and mentored many endocrinologists.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
John Strang (1922–2005) graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1945. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Sydney, where he was appointed to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Treasurer from 1966–68. His research interests included pituitary and adrenal disease. He was a dedicated clinician and teacher, remembered for his generosity and support of trainees.
Awarded Life Membership 2020
Bronwyn Stuckey is a graduate of the University of Sydney and did her physician training in endocrinology in Perth, Western Australia. She is a clinical endocrinologist with a focus on reproductive endocrinology. Her research interests lie within the interaction between reproductive hormones, male and female, and cardiometabolic disease, including polycystic ovary syndrome, menopause and the influence of postmenopausal hormone therapy on metabolic risk, and male erectile dysfunction. She is a consultant in the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, and Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine, University of Western Australia. Since 1995, she has been Medical Director of the Keogh Institute for Medical Research which is focused on reproductive endocrinology and its influence on long term health. She is a Past President of the Australasian Menopause Society.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Pincus Taft (1915–1995) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1938. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Melbourne, where he was appointed to the Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as President from 1968–70. His research interests included diabetes and thyroid disease. He was a respected clinician and teacher, remembered for his dedication to patient care and medical education.
Awarded Life Membership 2021
Professor Helena Teede MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FAAHMS holds leadership roles across health care, research and policy including as the Director of Monash Centre for Health Research Implementation, School of Public Health and co-director of the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering Monash University, an Endocrinologist at Monash Health, and Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. Helena has had an active 20 year academic career, supported by NHMRC fellowship funding. Helena was an ESA Council Member from 2008-2016, and was ESA President from 2014 to 2016. Professor Teede’s research interests focus on women’s health during the reproductive years, and on metabolic health including obesity and its endocrine, reproductive and metabolic complications such as PCOS, infertility, pregnancy complications, gestational diabetes and diabetes. She is strongly committed to stakeholder engagement in health promotion, healthcare improvement, implementation research and health service / systems innovation across different settings and populations. Helena has co-designed, delivered and scaled Women in Leadership Capacity Building Programs for over a decade. Her research is actively translated into guidelines and resources now actively accessed and supporting care in 126 countries.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Alan Thomas (1921–2002) graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1944. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Sydney, where he was appointed to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as President from 1970–72. His research interests included thyroid disease and diabetes. He was a respected clinician and teacher, remembered for his kindness and humour.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Victor Trikojus (1902–1985) graduated in Science from the University of Sydney in 1923 and completed a PhD in Biochemistry at Cambridge. He returned to Australia and became Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1938. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as President from 1958–60. His research interests included thyroid hormone biochemistry and metabolism. He was a pioneer of endocrinology in Australia and trained many future leaders in the field.
Awarded Life Membership 2004
John Turtle graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1957 and trained in endocrinology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and in London. He was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Head of the Department of Endocrinology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. His research interests included diabetes and metabolism, particularly the role of insulin and glucose transport. He has published extensively and is recognised internationally for his contributions to diabetes research. He has served on ESA Council and as President of the Society. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to medicine, particularly in the field of endocrinology and diabetes.
Awarded Life Membership 2025
Professor Wayne Tilley has been the inaugural Director of the Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories at the University of Adelaide since 2002. He is a leading figure in hormone receptor biology whose four-decade career has substantially advanced understanding of hormonal carcinogenesis in breast and prostate cancer. Early in his career, he cloned the human androgen receptor, providing insights that helped define mechanisms of androgen receptor action in health and disease. His subsequent research established key concepts underpinning castration-resistant prostate cancer and revealed the contrasting roles of the androgen receptor across cancer types—oncogenic in prostate cancer but tumour suppressive in estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer. This work forms the basis for new androgen receptor–based endocrine strategies for treatment and prevention now entering clinical evaluation.
Professor Tilley’s research program is internationally recognised and influential across the field of hormone-dependent cancers. He has mentored numerous students, fellows and emerging leaders and has contributed extensively to the profession through convening the International PacRim Breast and Prostate Cancer Meeting series, Fusion Nuclear Receptor Conferences, and co-chairing the Lorne Cancer Conference. He has been a member of the Endocrine Society of Australia since the early 1980s, supporting endocrinology research and training over many years. Professor Tilley’s contributions have been acknowledged through multiple national awards and, in 2025, his election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the award of Honorary Life Membership of the ESA.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Arthur Vines (1915–1990) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1938. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Melbourne, where he was appointed to the Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Treasurer from 1968–70. His research interests included pituitary and adrenal disease. He was a dedicated clinician and teacher, remembered for his generosity and support of trainees.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Robert Wallace (1918–1998) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1941. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Melbourne, where he was appointed to the Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Treasurer from 1972–74. His research interests included pituitary and adrenal disease. He was a dedicated clinician and teacher, remembered for his generosity and support of trainees.
Awarded Life Membership 2015
Professor Garry Warne is a paediatric endocrinologist who graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1969. He trained at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and at the Hospital for Sick Children, London. He was Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Royal Children’s Hospital from 1986–2007. His research interests include disorders of sex development, growth and puberty. He has published extensively and is recognised internationally for his contributions to paediatric endocrinology. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to medicine, particularly paediatric endocrinology.
Awarded Life Membership 2019
Professor George Werther is a paediatric endocrinologist and researcher whose work has focused on growth disorders, growth hormone action and insulin-like growth factors. He has published extensively and is recognised internationally for his contributions to paediatric endocrinology. He has served on ESA Council and as President of the Society. He was awarded an AO in the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medicine in the field of paediatric endocrinology, particularly growth disorders, as a researcher and mentor.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
John Wettenhall (1916–2000) graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1939. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Melbourne, where he was appointed to the Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as President from 1972–74. His research interests included thyroid disease and diabetes. He was a respected clinician and teacher, remembered for his kindness and humour.
Awarded Life Membership 2008
Irene Wintour-Coghlan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne. Her research has focused on fetal physiology and endocrinology, particularly the role of hormones in fetal development and the regulation of amniotic fluid volume. She has published extensively and is recognised internationally for her contributions to fetal endocrinology. She has served on ESA Council and as President of the Society. She was awarded an AO in the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medical research in the field of physiology and endocrinology, as an academic and mentor.
Awarded Life Membership 1982
Keith Wynne (1920–2004) graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1943. He trained in endocrinology in London before returning to Sydney, where he was appointed to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Endocrine Society of Australia and served as Treasurer from 1974–76. His research interests included pituitary and adrenal disease. He was a dedicated clinician and teacher, remembered for his generosity and support of trainees.
Awarded Life Membership 2020
Professor Jeffrey Zajac is Head of the Department of Medicine, Austin Health, University of Melbourne. He is a clinician and researcher with interests in bone and mineral metabolism, androgen physiology and clinical endocrinology. He has published extensively and is recognised internationally for his contributions to endocrinology. He has served on ESA Council and as President of the Society. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to medicine, particularly endocrinology, and to medical research and education.