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Diana Rosemary Lennon Шаблон:Post-nominals (1949 – 15 May 2018) was a New Zealand academic and pediatrician, specialising in infectious diseases, and was a full professor at the University of Auckland.[1]

Academic career

Lennon graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Otago in 1972.[2] She was awarded FRACP in Pediatrics in 1978.[3]

After a short research position at the University of Auckland, Lennon trained further in infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1982 she returned to New Zealand as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, with a half-time role as a specialist pediatrician at the Auckland Hospital Board.

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She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1991, and Professor of Population Child and Youth Health in 1996.[3]

Lennon was a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at Princess Mary Hospital, Starship Hospital and Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, and provided consultant services throughout the country.[3]

Research

Lennon's work on rheumatic fever began in the 1980s with the setting up of a rheumatic fever register for the Auckland region, which was followed by free delivery of a penicillin-based treatment to prevent resurgence. In 2006 Lennon was co-author on New Zealand's first evidence-based diagnostic and treatment guidelines for rheumatic fever. In 2017 Lennon published the results of a world-first trial showing that community interventions (sore-throat clinics in primary schools) could significantly reduce the rate of rheumatic fever in school-children.[3]

Lennon also worked on prevention of other infectious diseases in children. Her work was instrumental in the introduction of vaccine programmes for Haemophilus influenzae type b and meningococcal A and B. Her work showing that the greatest risk factor for meningococcal disease is crowding led directly to changes in how state homes are built.[1][2]

Awards

In 1992 Lennon was named Plunket Woman of the Year.[3] Lennon was made a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 1994.[3]

She became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005 for services to science and health.[4] In 2008 the Royal Society Te Apārangi awarded her one of two inaugural Dame Joan Metge Medals for her "research as a paediatrician scientist [that] has made a major impact on the lives of New Zealand children".[5]

In 2017 Lennon was featured in the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words project, celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[6]

Selected works

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