Background
Salans, Lester Barry was born on January 25, 1936 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States. Son of Leon K. and Jean (Rudnick) Salans.
Salans, Lester Barry was born on January 25, 1936 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States. Son of Leon K. and Jean (Rudnick) Salans.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1957; M.D. with honors, University of Illinois, 1961.
Internal medicine intern, Stanford University Medical Center, 1961; resident, Stanford University Medical Center, 1962-1964; United States Public Health Service postdoctoral and special fellow, Rockefeller U., 1964-1967; assistant professor, Rockefeller U., 1967-1968; Adjunct Professor, Rockefeller U., since 1984; assistant professor medicine, Dartmouth College, 1968-1970; associate professor, Dartmouth College, 1970-1977; Adjunct Professor, Dartmouth College, 1978-1979; associate director diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, also chief laboratory cellular metabolism and obesity, National Institute Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1976-1981; director, National Institute Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1981-1984; vice president, head preclinical research, Sandoz Research Institute, 1985-1992; vice president scientific and academic affairs, Sandoz Research Institute, 1993-1997; president, LBS Advisors, Inc., since 1997; dean, Mount Sinai School Medicine, 1984; professor internal medicine, Mount Sinai School Medicine, 1984-1985; clinical professor medicine, Mount Sinai School Medicine, since 1987. Adjunct Professor Rockefeller U., since 1985. Visiting professor U. Geneva, Switzerland, 1974-1975.
Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Federal Clinical Research, American Diabetes Society, American Diabetes Association (Charles H. Best award 1985), Endocrine Society, Association American Physicians, American Society Clinical Nutrition.
Married Lois Audrey Kapp, December 21, 1958;children: Laurence Eliot, Andrea Eileen.