Professor Andrew Lloyd AM is a distinguished infectious diseases physician scientist. He has made major contributions to clinical practice in hepatitis C infection (particularly amongst the prisoner population) and also in chronic fatigue states associated with infection and cancer. He has also made major contributions in laboratory-based studies of the pathophysiology of hepatitis C infection, the acute sickness response to infection and post-infective fatigue states. These studies have led the research direction internationally as well as delivered important clinical practice innovations in Australia. Professor Lloyd has also contributed extensively in research leadership, particularly in the field of viral hepatitis.