Adj. Prof. Anna Lenardon completed her medical training in Italy. She has worked as an Internal Medicine Specialist in the UK and then undertook her Fellowship in Psychiatry while working in NHS Foundation Trusts and Prison Services. She completed specialist training in Forensic Psychiatry and consulted as a Forensic Psychiatrist to East London and South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts prisons before arriving in Australia in 2017. She initially worked in Melbourne at the Thomas Embling Hospital.

She is currently employed as Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist with the Gold Coast MHS, Forensic Community Team. Adj. Prof. Lenardon has a special interest in treating mentally disordered offenders in prison, particularly female offenders, and the link between substance abuse and criminal offending. She provides reports to Courts and legal practitioners to address fitness for trial, medical defences, risk and disposal including for Dangerous Prisoner (Sex Offender) matters. She takes instructions for civil matters.

Adj. Prof. Lenardon has given expert evidence in Court on numerous occasions, including to the Supreme Court and the Mental Health Court in Brisbane.