Professor Leslie Burnett is a Clinical Pathologist, specialising in Chemical Pathology, Genetic Pathology and Bioinformatics. [More...]

Professor Leslie Burnett is a Clinical Pathologist, specialising in Chemical Pathology, Genetic Pathology and Bioinformatics.

He has served in multiple distinguished senior National and International professional roles in pathology, and is a current Member of the Human Genetics Advisory Committee (HGAC) of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia (by Ministerial appointment). Previous roles have included serving as Chairman of the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC) of Australia (by Ministerial appointment), Associate Member, Medical Devices Evaluation Committee (MDEC), Commonwealth of Australia Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) (by Ministerial appointment), President of the Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists (AACB), President of the National Coalition of Public Pathology (NCOPP), Chairman of the Quality Assurance, Scientific and Education Committee of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA), Councillor of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA), Chairman of the Benchmarking in Pathology Program, RCPA Quality Assurance Programs (RCPA QAP), Chairman of the Key Incident Monitoring and Management System Program of the RCPA QAP and Chairman of the Ethics Taskforce of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC).

His past organisational roles include being founding Director and Chief Executive of the Pathology North Cluster of NSW Health Pathology Service, Director of Pacific Laboratory Medicine Services (PaLMS) and Assistant Director of the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research (ICPMR).

Dr Burnett pioneered the development and introduction of a number of pathology, genetics and management initiatives, including Community Genetics screening in Australia, Cost Benchmarking in Pathology, Process Capability and pre-analytical Quality Assurance in Pathology. Today, all these initiatives are mainstream pathology and healthcare programs. The American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) has awarded him its Management Sciences Award in recognition of “achievements of an individual who has made outstanding contributions in management sciences to the clinical laboratory and healthcare industry”.

Professor Burnett has specialist qualifications in Medicine, Science, Management and Information Technology. He is Clinical Professor in the Northern Clinical School of the Faculty of Medicine and Honorary Associate in Molecular Biosciences at the University of Sydney Medical School. He has authored more than 100 publications. [Hide detail]