Kevin Fong

Kevin Fong
OBE MRCP FRCA
Born
Kevin Jeremy San Yoong Fong

(1971-05-21) 21 May 1971 (age 53)[1]
Brent, London, UK
EducationSalvatorian College
Greenhill Tertiary College
Alma materUniversity College London (MBBS)
Cranfield University (MSc)
AwardsRoyal Institution Christmas Lectures (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology
Anaesthesia
Space medicine
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex
Websitewww.uclh.nhs.uk/our-services/find-consultant/professor-kevin-fong Edit this at Wikidata

Kevin Jeremy San Yoong Fong OBE MRCP FRCA (born 21 May 1971)[1][2] is a British doctor and broadcaster. He is a consultant anaesthetist and anaesthetic lead for Major Incident Planning at UCL Hospitals. He is a professor at University College London[3] where he organises and runs an undergraduate course Extreme Environment Physiology. Fong also serves as a prehospital doctor with Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex[citation needed] and specialises in space medicine[4][5] in the UK and is the co-director of the Centre for Aviation Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (CASE Medicine), University College London.

Fong is best known for his television appearances, particularly as an occasional presenter of the long-running BBC2 science programme, Horizon. He presented the 2012 Channel 4 series Extreme A&E where he visited trauma centres all over the world.[6] In 2015, he presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, an annual series of lectures in front of a live audience of schoolchildren, and broadcast on BBC Four, with the subject How to Survive in Space.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Kevin FONG born May 1971". gov.uk. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022.
  2. ^ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, US: Ancestry.com Inc, 2008. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.
  3. ^ "Professor Kevin Fong". nhs.uk. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021.
  4. ^ Fong, K. J. (2010). "Risk management, NASA, and the National Health Service: Lessons we should learn". British Journal of Anaesthesia. 105 (1): 6–8. doi:10.1093/bja/aeq139. PMID 20551024.
  5. ^ Fong, K. J.; Arya, M.; Paloski, W. H. (2007). "Gender differences in cardiovascular tolerance to short radius centrifugation". Journal of Gravitational Physiology. 14 (1): P15–P19. PMID 18372686.
  6. ^ "Extreme A&E - Episode Guide". channel4.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. [dead link]
  7. ^ "Kevin Fong". rigb.org. The Royal Institution. Retrieved 28 December 2015.