Professor Rupert Leong is Director of Endoscopy and Head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Services at Concord Hospital, Clinical Discipline Head of Gastroenterology at Macquarie University Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at University of Sydney and Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. He completed gastroenterology and clinical immunology training at University of Western Australia and another 2 years of interventional endoscopy fellowship training at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, as the Amy and Athelstan Saw Research Fellow. His MD thesis was Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in the Chinese Population, which later awarded him Researcher on the Rise of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and the American Gastroenterological Association Fellowship awarded based on excellence in research. He subsequently received a Career Development Fellowship (level 2 clinical) of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia, which was awarded to only 5 individuals that year.