Professor Rupert Leong serves as the Director of Endoscopy and Head of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Services at Concord Hospital, Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee at Central Sydney Private Hospital and Professor of Medicine at University of Sydney and Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. He has been awarded with the Researcher on the Rise by the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and has received the American Gastroenterological Association Fellowship for exceptional research contributions. Subsequently, he was granted an Australian NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (level 2 clinical), a distinction awarded to only five individuals that year.