Patrick Siu Chung Leung

Dr. Patrick Leung is an academic emergency physician working in a 24-hour metropolitan Emergency Department of Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. With an annual attendance approximating 130,000, it is a major acute regional hospital, tertiary referral centre, Level 1 trauma centre, as well as the teaching hospital of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong. Currently it is an accredited training centre of the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Leung graduated from The University of Hong Kong with MB.,BS. in 2008 and finished his post-internship specialty training in emergency medicine in 2016. After obtaining the specialist status in emergency medicine, he continued to develop academically as Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor of the Emergency Medicine Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. In view of outstanding merits of his work, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Young Fellow 2017 by the Hong Kong Academy Medicine with nomination by the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine. He became a full time university staff starting from March 2020.

Currently he is a faculty member of the in-house simulation training team and the clinical toxicology work group. He is also part of the Editorial Board of the Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine (SAGE Publications Ltd) as Editor and Reviewer. It is an official publication of the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine and The Hong Kong Society for Emergency Medicine and Surgery as a peer-reviewed, open access journal.

Educational services are provided to rotating EM trainees, medical students, and the general public as collaborative effort among the Emergency Medicine Unit of The University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine, and Queen Mary Hospital. Apart from academic outputs, he also authored a chapter about ventilatory support in the book "生命邊緣的守護者—急症醫護最前線" which was an official publication by the Hong Kong Society of Emergency Medicine and Surgery. It became the best seller in the Commercial Press (Hong Kong) Ltd in 2015.

Research Interests

• Clinical Toxicology
• Medical Simulation Training
• Resuscitation
• Emergency Airway Management
• Critical Care
• Innovative Medical Technology

Current Work

• Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Practice, Emergency Medicine Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
• Honorary Associate Consultant, Accident and Emergency Department, Queen Mary Hospital
• Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor, Accident and Emergency Medicine Academic Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Trainer, Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine
• Editor and Reviewer, Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine

Education

• Clinical Toxicology Subspecialty, Toxicology Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine (2017)
• Diploma of Clinical Toxicology Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine & Hong Kong Poison Information Centre (2017)
• Fellow Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) The University of Hong Kong

Companies

• Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Practice The University of Hong Kong (2020)
• Honorary Associate Consultant Queen Mary Hospital (2020)
• Editor and Reviewer Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine (2017)
• Clinical Assistant Professor (Honorary) The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2017)
• Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong (2016 — 2020)
• Associate Consultant Queen Mary Hospital (2018 — 2020)
• Resident Specialist Queen Mary Hospital (2017 — 2018)
• Resident Queen Mary Hospital (2009 — 2017)
• House Officer Queen Elizabeth Hospital (2009 — 2009)