Dr. Alex Leow is Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist in Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur and is Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist to University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He previously worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Malaya. He obtained his basic degree in Biomedical Science in 1999 at University of Malaya before furthering his study in Medicine in University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. He graduated in 2004 and was awarded the Penang Medical Practitioner’s Society Best All-Round Student Award. He obtained his master’s degree in Internal Medicine and was awarded the John Bosco Best Master Student Award upon graduation in 2012. His areas of interest are diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, Helicobacter pylori, inflammatory bowel disease and has authored and co-authored in numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented in both local and international conferences. He is currently a member of the Asian EUS Group, Chairman of the Malaysian IBD Special Interest Group, the Secretary General of the Organising Committee of APDW 2021 and Executive Committee Member of the Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.