Division of General Internal Medicine

Frances Lester

Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine

Active Staff, General Internal Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences

 

 

Education and Professional Standing

  • M.D. (Queen's, 1966)
  • M.Phil. (Biochemistry - University of London, 1970)
  • MRCP (UK) 1970 (FRCP, UK, 1990-2000)
  • Clinical Fellow, Endocrinology 1991 – MGH/McGill U (Rockefeller Fdn. Fellowship)
  • FRCP(C) 1991 – Certificate and Fellowship in Internal Medicine
  • Medical Consultant, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
  • Alumni Achievement Award, Queen' s University - 1991

Past Experience

  • General Internal Medicine , hospital-based practice and teaching
  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1971-1994 (except sabbatical 1991)
  • Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland 1994-2001

Present Activities – since Sept 2001

General Internal Medicine "80% clinical, 20% teaching" at Henderson General Hospital

Selected Publications

  1. Lester FT & Keen H Macrovascular disease in middle-aged Ethiopian diabetics Diabetologia 1988; 31:361-7
  2. Lester FT Clinical features, complications and mortality in Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Quarterly J Med 1992; 83:380-9
  3. Lester FT Chronic Medical Diseases in Ethiopian Adults, in "The Ecology of Health and Disease in Ethiopia" eds ZA Zein & H Kloos, 1988, 2nd Ed 1992, revised 2004
  4. Lester FT Diabetes Mellitus – A Manual for Use in Ethiopia
    First ed.- Central Printing Press, Addis Ababa, 1982
    2nd - McGill University Printing Service, Montreal, 1991