Dr Mike YY Leung

Dr. Mike Y.Y. Leung is a Clinical Associate Professor and Postgraduate Programme Director in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong. He also serves as the Assistant Dean (External Relations) of the Faculty. He is the President of the Hong Kong Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Internationally, he served as the Vice Chair (Academic Affair) and in the AOCMF Asia Pacific Board, and is now representing Asia Pacific in the AOCMF Education Commission. He is also an at-large member of the executive committee of the Asian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

He graduated BDS, MDS (OMFS) and PhD from the University of Hong Kong and started his career in oral and maxillofacial surgery in Hong Kong after graduation of BDS. He devotes to be an academic surgeon after he received the Young Lecturer’s Award of the 19^th Convocation of Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and the Gold Medal of the Best Original Research by Trainee, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine during his surgical training in 2008.

Dr Leung’s clinical and research interests are orthognathic surgery, management of obstructive sleep apnea and trigeminal nerve repair. He has published over 100 scientific and conference papers in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery. He lectures frequently on orthognathic surgery in the Asia Pacific region and internationally.