Kevin Fong
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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.
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Born | Kevin Jeremy San Yoong Fong (1971-05-21) 21 May 1971 (age 53)[1] Brent, London, UK |
Education | Salvatorian College Greenhill Tertiary College |
Alma mater | University College London (MBBS) Cranfield University (MSc) |
Awards | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physiology Anaesthesia Space medicine |
Institutions | University College London Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex |
Website | www |
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]