Diana Horvath
Diana Glen Horvath is an Australian medical doctor, researcher and administrator and the first female chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Horvath graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1968. She later completed a Masters of Health Planning from the University of New South Wales.
Horvath was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to health administration and to medicine particularly through advancing medical teaching and medical research.". She was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for "service to Australian society in business leadership".
Horvath was awarded the Sidney Sax medal in 1992, the pre-eminent prize awarded by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association.
She is married to Professor John Horvath and the two worked together at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland in the United States in the 1970s. They have two children.
