Dr. Amber Leis is the Residency Program Director for the Division of Plastic Surgery at Washington University Saint Louis (Wash U). She is a hand and microsurgeon with a special focus on pediatric and congenital hand, brachial plexus birth injury, adult traumatic brachial plexus injury and peripheral nerve injury. 

Dr. Leis was born and raised in a rural community in the foothills of the Cascade mountains in Oregon. She received her MD at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and then completed an integrated plastic surgery residency at Loma Linda University in southern California. She finally attended the prestigious Boyes Hand fellowship in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Southern California. She recently relocated her practice to Wash U after a decade spent working at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). At UCI she was the division chief of hand surgery and also served as the Residency Program Director. She is passionate about education and mentorship and regularly teaches medical students, residents and fellows about hand and nerve injuries. Given her origin story, coming from a family of limited means, she is involved nationally in outreach and education to create opportunities for students of all backgrounds in her specialty. She serves in leadership roles for several national professional organizations for plastic surgery, is a current member of the American Council for Graduate Medical Education Review and Recognition Committee for Plastic Surgery and serves as the Chair of the Council of Program Directors for the specialty nationally. In 2023, she was awarded and outstanding faculty teacher award from American Council of Educators in Plastic Surgery, and in 2024 was awarded the Academician of the Year by the California Society of Plastic Surgeons. She is the American Society of Peripheral Nerve travelling fellow for 2025 and was recently inducted into the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators. 

Dr. Margaret Fok is currently a consultant of the Division of General Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Queen Mary Hospital. She is also an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of The University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Margaret Fok had her undergraduate medical training in University of Otago, New Zealand. After her graduation in 2000, she came back to Hong Kong and embarked into her orthopaedic career in Queen Mary Hospital. During her training, she had the opportunities to work with esteemed hand and  wrist surgeons including Professor SP chow, Dr Boris Fung and Dr PC Ho. As a result, she has developed special interests in hand and wrist surgeries and microsurgeries. Upon the completion of her orthopaedic specialist training, she seek further training in these areas by taking overseas fellowships, to work under Professor Diego Fernandez, Bern, Switzerland for the management of complex wrist problems, Professor Fu-Chen Wei for soft tissue coverage in limbs, Professor David Chuong for nerve reconstruction in brachial plexus injuries and Professor Yuen- Kuen Tu for the management of complex hand conditions and brachial plexus injuries.