Lord Lee-Benner

Background

Lord Lee-Benner was born on December 28, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is the son of Kwaja Manover and Constance Ann (Reardon) Shah Babar.

Education

Lee-Benner studied at Emory University in Atlanta, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities in 1957. He later received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1966.

He completed postgraduate training at the University of Pennsylvania, where he undertook residency work in general neurosurgery, radiology, neurology, and psychiatry in 1972. This multidisciplinary training provided a broad clinical foundation across neurological and diagnostic fields.

Career

Lord Lee-Benner began his career with service in the United States Naval Reserve as a lieutenant from 1958 to 1962. He later worked as a staff physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1972, while also maintaining private medical practice in Philadelphia and Los Angeles until 1986.

Lee-Benner pursued an academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1977 and later as an associate professor at the University of Southern California from 1977 to 1979, contributing to medical education and clinical training.

In 1974, he became a consultant physician at the American Oncologic Hospital in Fox Chase, Pennsylvania, where he worked for five years. During the same period, he served as a forensic medicine consultant in Philadelphia, applying medical expertise within legal and investigative contexts.

In 1979, Lee-Benner joined the medical staff of Memorial Hospital Glendale and Glendale Adventist Memorial Hospital, where he practiced until 1986. He subsequently held leadership roles as medical director of the Lee-Benner Institute of Aging Control and Nutritional Medicine (1986–1990) and the Lee-Benner Medical Group (1990–1994), both in Newport Beach, California.

From 1992 to 2007, Lee-Benner served as medical director of the Lee-Benner Institute for Neuroscience, continuing his work in neurological research and clinical practice. Since 1986, he has also served as chairman of the World Health Foundation in Newport Beach.

Beginning in 2014, Lee-Benner worked as a medical missionary at a community health center in West Palm Beach, Florida, providing care in community-based medical settings.

Achievements

• Lee-Benner contributed to the development of hydroxyethyl starch as a plasma substitute and peripheral circulation expander, as well as techniques for accelerated aging studies of colloids. He also proposed a red cell hypothesis in the etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and was among the early physicians to introduce human growth hormone treatment in adults, contributing to the development of clinical age management practices.

Membership

Lee-Benner has been affiliated with several professional organizations, including the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Aging Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He was also a founder of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and associated with the American College of Clinical Gerontology.

• New York Academy of Science , New York

• American Association for the Advancement of Science

• American Aging Association

• American Academy of Family Physicians

• He was an emeritus member.

  American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicin

• He was a founder.

  American College of Clinical Gerontology

Connections

Father:

Kwaja Manover Babar

Mother:

Constance Ann (Reardon) Shah Babar