Associate Professor Edmund Leung

MB BS 2000 London; CCT (UK) (Gen Surg) 2013; FRCS (Gen surg) Edin 2013

Qualifications: MB BS London; CCT (UK) (Gen Surg); DMedSci (Immunology); JAG (Endoscopy); FRCS (Gen surg); FEBS (Oncology)

Edmund came to New Plymouth with his family just before the Covid pandemic from UK. He had been a senior lecturer and consultant gastrointestinal surgeon in UK for many years. Ed graduated medical school in London in the late 1990s and spent his surgical career in middle England, where he obtained his surgical fellowship and research doctorate in bowel cancer. At the end of Ed’s fellowship, Ed spent some time in Basingstoke, UK, with Professor Bill Heald and Professor Brendan Moran further subspecialising within the fields of pelvic cancer.

Outside Ed’s clinical duties, he is an active Surgical Oncology examiner for European Board of Surgery and a training convenor for the Royal College of Surgeons with now over 80 peer-reviewed publications. Ed has peer-reviewed over 300 medical journal manuscripts. Furthermore, Ed is also the International Ambassador for the British Association of Surgical Oncology, actively promoting better training, delivery of care and public awareness on cancer surgery. In 2019, Edmund was the winner of the British Silver Scalpel Surgeon of the Year.

• Interventional and diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy  
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Hernia (Laparoscopic or open)
• Skin tumours
• Abdominal pain and adhesions
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Haemorrhoidal surgery and other anal conditions: fistulae, fissures, proctalgia
• Pilonidal Surgery: Simple excision to Limberg flap
• Major open and laparoscopic Surgery: Cancer, Diverticular disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• TAMIS (Transanal minimal invasive Surgery)
• Pelvic floor disorders: obstructed defaecation, functional incontinence/constipation and prolapse
• Abdominal and groin hernia repair including parastomal hernia repair (open and laparoscopic)

General Surgeon

• MBBS, MRCS (General Surgery), DMedSci (Molecular immunology), JAG (Endoscopy), FRCS (Colorectal), FEBS (Surg Oncology)
• Honorary Associate Professor of Surgery (Auckland)

29 October 2020

General Surgery