David Leaper MD, ChM, FRCS, FACS, FLS

Professor David Leaper qualified from Leeds Medical School in 1970 MB ChB (with honours) and trained in general surgery in Leeds, Scarborough, King’s College and Westminster Hospitals in London with research periods as a Cancer Research Campaign Fellow and Medical Research Council Fellow. He has the Fellowship in Surgery of the Royal Colleges of Edinburgh, England, and Glasgow. He has two higher degrees by thesis; MD and ChM and was awarded the Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons.

David Leaper was appointed Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Bristol (1981-1995), with Honorary Consultant status at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead Hospital in Bristol. He was Professor of Surgery at the University of Hong Kong (1988-1990) and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1995-2004), now Emeritus Professor, with Visiting Chair status at Imperial College, London and Southampton University. Professor Leaper was appointed as Professor of Clinical Sciences at the University of Huddersfield in 2013.