Peter Landy, one of two sons of J E Landy and Jessie (nee Bunworth), was born in 1928. He died following an intracranial haemorrhage on 15th July 2006. His marriage to Cecily (nee O'Connor) resulted in four sons. Robert, the eldest is a consulting engineer; Mark is an intensive care physician; Peter is a diagnostic radiologist and Paul is a solicitor.

Peter was educated at Nudgee Christian Brothers College in Brisbane. He entered medicine at the University of Queensland in 1941 and graduated in 1946. He was a Resident at the Mater Public Hospitals in Brisbane from 1947 until 1949.

He moved to London where he was a House Officer at the Central Middlesex Hospital during 1950 and 1951, and worked at the Maida Vale Hospital under Lord Brain in 1952. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 1952.

He returned to Brisbane to found the Neurology Unit at the Mater Public Hospitals. He was a neurologist there from 1953 until 1973. Together with Dr G J Toakley, Neurosurgeon, he developed the Neurology and Neurosurgery Unit. Peter Landy also had an appointment to the Repatriation Hospital, Greenslopes, Brisbane, from 1953 until 1988.

In 1962, he took up the appointment as Visiting Medical Officer to the Princess Alexandra Hospital, where he developed a combined Neurological and Neurosurgical Unit between 1962 and 1984. He was made an Honorary Consultant at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1985.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1969 and was Chairman of the RACP Queensland State Committee from 1974 until 1976.

While he continued practising in public and in private as a neurophysician, Peter Landy was active in a wide range of medical activities. He was member of the Council of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Medical Association from 1966 to 1972. He was active as the Honorary Librarian and as the branch representative on the Queensland Council of Professions, the Medico-Legal Liaison Committee and the Asthma Foundation. He was a Director of the Australian Medical Agency. He later returned to the Queensland Branch of the Australian Medical Association as the President Elect and President of the branch in 1980 and 1981. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Medical Association in 1982 and in 1983 was honoured with the award of an OBE for his contributions to medicine.

From 1983 to 1988 Peter Landy was the Chairman of the State Committee of the Australian Brain Foundation. He was the Chairman of the Neurology and Neurosurgery Assessment Tribunal of the Workers' Compensation Board of Queensland from 1983 until 1993. He was President of the Queensland Council of Professions from 1976 until 1978. He later was President of the Queensland Medico-Legal Society in 1981 and he was elected Vice Patron in 1994. Over thirty-nine years, he provided dedicated and distinguished service to the Medical Benevolent Association.

Peter Landy was a quiet, understated neurophysician. He was a distinguished teacher and tutor to a large number of trainee physicians. He was dedicated to improving the profession.