Division of Infectious Diseases
30 North 1900 East Rm 4C416
Salt Lake City, UT
United States 84132
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Leung is a physician-scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah. He sees patients on the Infectious Diseases consult service at the University of Utah Hospital and in the Travel Clinic. He also heads up a research laboratory focusing on the immunology of diarrheal diseases in developing countries as well as investigating gut dysfunction in returning travelers.
Dr. Leung is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BSc '98, MSc '01) and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (MD '05). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington, and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School. From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Leung lived and worked in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he performed research on immunology of diarrheal diseases, with a focus on cholera in children, as a joint research fellow of a collaboration between Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School and the Centre for Vaccine Sciences at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b).
Dr. Leung's research is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Thrasher Research Fund, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund / American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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