Leonard B. Strang

Leonard Birnie Strang FRCP (13 May 1925 – 24 June 1997) was a Scottish-born British professor of pediatric sciences and was a Secretary of the Paediatric Committee of the Royal College of Physicians. He was considered an outstanding clinical observer, contributing to the first accounts of harlequinism and of catecholamine secretion in neuroblastoma.

Life Strang was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. Strang gained his MB BS from Durham University in 1949. Strang undertook his postgraduate training in paediatrics at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, in the department founded by James Calvert Spence, a supreme clinician. It was during the seven years period while he was at the infirmary working under Spence, that Strang's talent as a clinical researcher emerged and the first initial research efforts into harlequinism and of catecholamine secretion in neuroblastoma emerged.

Accolades Strang was the awarded the James Spence Medal in 1990. He was elected to the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom, in 1952, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1967.