Profile: Lew Lander

J .Lewis Lander graduated from the University of Queensland Medical School, then served in the Royal Australia Navy – reaching the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant Commander. On retiring from the navy, Dr Lander undertook post graduate training in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, Sydney and the National Women’s hospital, Auckland. He holds specialist qualifications with the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Royal Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Dr Lander then returned to Australia, as Warden of clinical studies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Queensland Medical School. In 1988, he established a state wide urodynamics clinics, servicing the eastern seaboard of Queensland from Cairns to Brisbane. Currently he has an appointment as a visiting consultant Gynaecologist and senior lecturer at the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital, Brisbane. He maintains a busy uro-gynaecological practice and regularly lectures or demonstrates surgical techniques local and overseas.