Elizabeth Dax, AM, M.B., B.S., M.D., PhD; ARCPA, MASM.
Consultant
liz@nrl.gov.au

Liz graduated with MB,BS from the University of Melbourne in 1971. After completing her PhD in neuro-endocrinology at Monash University in 1977, she conducted basic endocrinological research at the National Institutes of Health, USA between 1977 and 1990. From 1986, as Chief of the Immunology/Endocrinology Laboratory at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, she ran an HIV serology laboratory that monitored the HIV epidemic in injection drug users across the United States. She was one of three medical officers conducting clinical research in the Institute. She was also an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital practising clinical endocrinology. Liz obtained her MD through the University of Melbourne in 1989. Between 1990 and 2009 she was the Director of the National Serology Reference Laboratory, Australia.

In September 2009, Liz resigned the Directorship of the NRL. However she remains in a consulting role continuing to work on international training projects and to provide oversight of NRL's diagnostic testing services.