Dr Margaret Leach graduated from the University of NSW in 1991, and completed her Physician, Gastroenterology and Therapeutic Endoscopy training at Royal North Shore Hospital in 1999, which included a year of research in motility and brain-gut interactions with Professor John Kellow. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (RACP) and accredited for Diagnostic, Therapeutic gastroscopies and colonoscopies, with the Conjoint Committee in Endoscopy. Dr Margaret Leach is a member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia, the Australian Medical Association and the American Gastroenterological Association.

She is currently a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Dee Why Endoscopy Unit, Dee Why. Dr Margaret Leach has provided Gastroenterological services in Western NSW from Dubbo once monthly since 2006. From 1999 to 2016 she was a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga and has also previously worked at the Northern Beaches Hospital in Frenchs Forest.

Professional Positions

• 2004-2005 Medical Advisory Committee member for Delmar Private Hospital Dee Why NSW
  
• 2005 Gastroenterologist advising NSW Scleroderma Society
  
• 2005-2009 Gastroenterological Society of Australia representative on “Medicines Australia” hearing panels
  
• 2006-2008 Head of Division of Gastroenterology. Sydney Adventist Hospital (The San) Wahroonga NSW
  
• 2018-2021 GESA Colonoscopy Recertification
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Hospital/Day Surgery Appointments

• Dee Why Endoscopy, Pittwater Rd, Dee Why
  
• Dubbo Private Hospital

Teaching Activities

• February 2001 – Dubbo Family Practice GP Group Speaker – (Short cases in Gastroenterology)
  
• July 2003 – Kuringai District Medical Association Conference Speaker “NASH” (Non Alcoholic Steatohepatitis)
  
• March 2005 – Annual NSW Scleroderma Conference Speaker “GAVE” (Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia)
  
• June 2005 – Western Plains Division of GPs Weekend Update Speaker – “Coeliac disease and NASH”
  
• March 2007 – Teleconference GP Logic Western Plains NSW Convenor (Iron studies interpretation; Faecal Occult Blood testing)
  
• 2007 to present - Providing advice to Outreach General Practitioners in Far Western NSW for General Gastrointestinal regarding clinical management queries
  
• 2013 to 2016 – University of Sydney Medical Student Teaching at The San Hospital
  
• Nov 27, 2014 – Fourth Year Notre Dame Medical Students Examiner

Research

12 months research into Irritable Bowel syndrome, effects on brain-gut interactions and autonomic dysfunction: supervisor Professor John Kellow (RNSH) 1999