Leslie Wilmert Donato
'99
At Rochester:
- Three letters each in indoor track & field and outdoor track & field
- Nine career top-8 finishes at conference championship meets, including eight top-3 results
- Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association (UCAA) weight throw title in 1998
- University Athletic Association (UAA) hammer throw title in 1999, and was 5-time All-UAA honoree
- Two-time New York State Collegiate Track Conference (NYSCTC) runner-up
- Finished 6th at the 1999 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the hammer throw, earning All-America status
- Two-time UAA All-Academic
- Earned degree from Rochester in Biochemistry
Post-Graduate:
- Earned Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology at Cornell
- Served as post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Fellowship for clinical chemistry at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)
- Mayo Clinic board-certified clinical chemist and laboratory director
- Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
- Married to husband, Justin, and has two children, Gemma and Zach
