Leung, Gilberto Ka Kit

Clinical Professor
Department of Surgery
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Medicine
Biography

Professor Gilberto K. K. Leung is a Clinical Professor and an academic neurosurgeon at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He graduated from the Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, University of London in 1992, received post-graduate training in the UK, US and Hong Kong, and was awarded the Hallett Gold Medal (F.R.C.S.(London)), and the J. Douglas Miller Medal in Neurosurgery (C.S.H.K.). After 13 years of non-academic clinical services, he joined HKU in 2005 where he subsequently obtained two doctorate degrees of MS and a PhD. He is currently a part-time student in LLM (Medical Law and Ethics) at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh.

Research Intrest

Neuro-oncology, endoscopic skull base surgery, neurotrauma, neuroregenerative therapy, and medical education

List of Publications
Introducing patient safety to undergraduate medical students A pilot program delivered by health care administrators Journal:Medical Teacher
Introducing patient safety to undergraduate medical students A pilot program delivered by health care administrators Journal:Medical Teacher
Combined simultaneous transcranial and transsphenoidal resection of large-to-giant pituitary adenomas Journal:Acta Neurochirurgica
Long non-coding RNA expression profiles predict clinical phenotypes in glioma Journal:Neurobiology of Disease
Hyperoxia resensitizes chemoresistant human glioblastoma cells to temozolomide
Hyperoxia resensitizes chemoresistant human glioblastoma cells to temozolomide Journal:Journal of Neuro-Oncology
A long non-coding RNA signature in glioblastoma multiforme predicts survival Journal:Neurobiology of disease