“It came complete with a childcare centre at the front gate.

“I saw Prince Henry Hospital advertise an electronic technician as a three-month temporary position, and I grabbed it,” he said. After his daughter was born in 1973 and he became a sole parent, Barnes needed a nine-to-five job that saw him home at night. Leo Barnes.īetween 19 Barnes was on the road in New Zealand and Australia, working in radio and television manufacturing, design and installation. Towards the end of his schooling, his father told him it was time to get a trade, and helped him get a radio technician apprenticeship in 1960. Growing up in Auckland, New Zealand, Barnes had an interest in DX radio. “I have never attended a university in my life - other than going to Harvard to buy a t-shirt.” “When I joined Prince Henry Hospital in 1977, the job title was ‘electronics technician’.

“When I started out, there simply wasn’t a word for biomedical engineering,” he told create.

Unlike past recipients, Barnes didn’t study engineering at university. From a childhood fascination with radios to setting global standards, Leo Barnes’s career in biomedical engineering has taken him all over the world.īarnes is the 2021 recipient of the David Dewhurst Award, which is given annually by Engineers Australia’s Biomedical College to recognise outstanding service to biomedical engineering.

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