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Dr Kevin Fong - MSc MRCP FRCADr Kevin Fong is a doctor of medicine with a special interest in human space exploration and extreme environment physiology. He holds degrees in medicine, astrophysics and engineering, and is an honorary senior lecturer in physiology at University College London. He has completed specialist training in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, has worked with NASA’s Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Office at Johnson Space Centre in Houston and the Medical Operations Group at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral. Kevin currently works as a consultant anaesthetist at University College London Hospital, is founder and associate director of the Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme environment medicine and a broadcaster. For broadcast, Kevin is presenter of To Boldly Go (BBC2 - 2012), he wrote and presented Space Shuttle: The Final Mission (2011) and he has also presented two Horizon documentaries Back from the Dead and How to Mend a Broken Heart, both received critical acclaim. In 2010, Kevin presented a BBC World Service science documentary about SETI and the Drake Equation, a BBC4 programme about Mars and he is also a presenter of Frontiers and a regular guest on Sony award winning series The Infinite Monkey Cage. Kevin is an innovative corporate speaker and he writes a regular column for the Times Higher Education magazine and is currently penning his first book for release in 2012. |
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In 1999 while a junior doctor, Kevin organised the Futures in UK Space Biomedical Research conference, in partnership with the British National Space Centre; senior delegates from NASA, the European Space Agency and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute were in attendance. This event was the first of its kind in the UK and led to the establishment of a new undergraduate course in extreme environmental physiology and a strategy for furthering the UK’s involvement in programmes of human space flight.
In the decade that followed, Kevin worked and trained at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas and at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral. Kevin founded CASE, the Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme environment medicine, at UCL in 2001. This small group comprised clinicians and scientists with a special interest in space, high altitude, aviation and dive medicine, as well as environmental extremes. In 2003, Kevin was awarded a prestigious NESTA fellowship. This grant allowed him to further pursue his interest in extreme environments. He would later be involved in the planning of the Cauldwell Xtreme Everest expedition, serve as a dive medical officer for Coral Cay Conservation and return to NASA to participate in a project investigating artificial gravity.
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Follow Kevin on Twitter @Kevin_Fong Kevin is represented by Sue Rider Management |