Creswell Eastman MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCPA, FAFPHM, ACCAM

Creswell (Cres) Eastman is a world-renowned endocrinologist with a primary interest in Iodine Deficiency Disorders. He is an international leader in projects to abolish IDD throughout the developing world, particularly Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, China and Tibet. He was the Foundation Head of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at Westmead Hospital in 1979.

Cres completed his internship as a Resident Medical Officer at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He remained there and began his early training in Endocrinology under the supervision of Profesor Les Lazarus as the Littleshop Research Fellow in endocrinology at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. In 1969, he became Registrar, before taking up another research fellowship, this time in asthma research at the Garvan. In 1971, he was awarded the Overseas Travelling Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and travelled to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London to train under John Nabarro and Professor Roger Eikins.