Dr. Kristel Leung is a Core Faculty member at the Health Services and Policy Research Institute (HSPRI), Assistant Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, Dept. of Medicine at Queen’s University, and hepatologist at Kingston Health Sciences Centre. As a clinician-scientist with expertise in rare and immune-mediated liver diseases and advanced cirrhosis care, Dr. Leung’s research spans population-level epidemiology, health services research, and outcomes evaluation, with an emphasis on scalable, data-driven approaches bringing clinicians, researchers, and health system partners together to advance liver disease care across multiple settings.

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Dr. Leung completed her medical degree at the University of British Columbia, followed by Internal Medicine residency training in Ottawa and Adult Gastroenterology fellowship training in Toronto. She subsequently completed advanced clinical and research fellowship training at the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease with the Autoimmune & Rare Liver Disease Programme, along with a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto as a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar.