Leung | Department of Medicine | School of Medicine

Dr. Kristel Leung

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Assistant Professor

Dr. Kristel Leung is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at Queen's University. She completed her medical school at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), prior to her Internal Medicine residency in Ottawa and Adult Gastroenterology fellowship in Toronto. After fellowship training, she completed two years of advanced clinical and research fellowship in autoimmune liver disease, followed by working as a clinical associate hepatologist at the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease. She has also completed a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the University of Toronto as a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar. Her graduate research focussed on advanced statistical methodologies with application to evaluating epidemiology, disease outcomes and patient-reported symptom burden in autoimmune cholestatic liver diseases.

Dr. Leung's clinical and research areas of interests are focussed on (1) rare and immune-mediated liver diseases, and (2) advancing cirrhosis care, by leveraging multiple data sources including clinical cohorts, healthcare administrative databases, and patient-reported outcomes.

She is an active member of the Research Committee for the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG), the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC), the International Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Study Group (IPSCG), and the Global Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) Study Group, and is a member of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL), American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).

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