Elizabeth Dax, AM, M.B., B.S., M.D., PhD; ARCPA, MASM.
Director
61 3 9418 1111
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. Since 1990 she has been the Director of the National Serology Reference Laboratory, Australia. Under her Directorship, the services and scope of the Australian Quality Assurance Program for serology has expanded considerably. The NRL is a WHO Collaborating Centre and A/Prof Dax has been director of the Centre since 1990. The NRL staff conducts overseas consultations and a quality assurance programme for laboratories of the Southeast Asian and Western Pacific Regions. Liz has acted as a consultant for W.H.O and World Bank and has been awarded grants from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AusAID and the World AIDS Foundation. She has extensive teaching experience in laboratories and workshops in the Southeast Asian and Western Pacific Regions and CDC in the U.S. Liz has authored over 100 publications and is a member of several national and international professional societies. In 2003-2005 she was president of the Australian Society for HIV Medicine.

Liz wishes she could speak another language besides English. In her spare time enjoys gardening, reading, knitting, cooking, going to the opera, swimming and going to the gym. Liz is very proud of her family's achievements, including her engineer son's producing her 2 grandchildren and her elder daughter with a senior position in the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, her second son persuing an academic career in astrophysics and her second daughter a career in theatre.