Kristel Leung is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University. Dr. Leung is also a hepatologist and clinician-scientist. Her graduate studies as a CIHR Vanier Scholar in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research focused on advanced statistical methodologies with application to evaluating epidemiology and disease outcomes in autoimmune cholestatic liver diseases using ICES.
Dr. Leung’s clinical and research program focuses on advancing care for patients living with cirrhosis and rare liver diseases by leveraging multiple data sources including multi-centre cohort and healthcare administrative databases. She is an active member of the Education Committee for the Canadian Association of the Study of the Liver (CASL), 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 European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).