Professor Gilberto Leung is a neurosurgeon, Clinical Professor, and Tsang Wing-Hing Professor in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he also serves as Director of the School of Clinical Medicine, Convenor of the Clinical Neuroscience Consortium, and Senior Advisor to the Teaching & Learning Sub-Deanery after a 7-year tenure as Associate Dean at the LKS Faculty of Medicine. He practises as Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at Queen Mary Hospital (QMH).

He graduated from the Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, University of London, with M.B.B.S. in 1992. During postgraduate training, he was awarded the Hallett Gold Medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the J. Douglas Miller Medal in Neurosurgery by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. After working in the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong for ten years and completed his Neuroendocrine Fellowship at the University of Virginia, he joined HKU in 2005 where he later obtained his MS, PhD, and MD.

Beyond the field of medicine, he holds an Intercalated BSc in Physical Anthropology and an LLB from the University of London, as well as an LLM in Medical Law and Ethics with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh and its School of Law’s McLagan Prize for Best Graduate. He helped establish the Professionalism and Ethics Committee of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, and he is currently Co-Director of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at HKU and Chairman of the Clinical Ethics Committee at QMH.

He is Immediate-Past President and Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine; Executive of the Research Council and Member of the Steering Committee on Health and Medical Innovation Developmentof the Health Bureau; and Convenor of the Institute for Medical Advancement and Clinical Excellence (IMACE)—an independent, multipartite platform established by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2025 to develop clinical practice guidelines specific to this locality. He was previously Region XVI Chief (Asia-Australasia) of the Advanced Trauma Life Support Program of the American College of Surgeons and is currently Board Member of the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities (IAMRA).  

His clinical and research interests include endoscopic neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, neuroprotective therapy, medical education, and medical law and ethics. He has supervised 39 postgraduate degree students, delivered 162 invited lectures, and authored 231 peer-reviewed journal articles, 13 book chapters, three monographs, 148 conference papers, and 78 other publications.