Leslie Burnett 43rd Lorne Genome Conference 2022

Leslie Burnett

Prof. Leslie Burnett is a Clinical Pathologist, with scope of practice in both Genetic Pathology and Chemical Pathology (Clinical Chemistry). He is Medical Laboratory Director at Virtus Genetics, Visiting Scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Conjoint Professor at St Vincent’s Clinical School, UNSW Medicine, Honorary Professor in Pathology and Genomic Medicine in the Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, and has been an Honorary Associate of the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. He pioneered the development of a number of pathology and genetics initiatives, which are today mainstream clinical services. These include founding Australia’s first Community Genetics carrier screening program (the “Tay-Sachs disease program”), being Medical Director of Australasia’s first clinically accredited Whole Genome Sequencing laboratory, developing the world’s first pre-analytical quality assurance programs in pathology, and founding Australia’s national peak body for public pathology (now Public Pathology Australia). He has served as Ministerial appointee, Chairman, or President of a number of National and International bodies in pathology and genetics. His current interests are in the areas of genetic pathology and genomics (especially in machine learning automation of clinical genomic diagnosis, and modelling of genomic population screening) and computational biology (especially in mechanisms of genomic regulation). He is a passionate teacher and communicator about the genetics and genomics revolution.