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Professor Kevin Fong

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  • University College Hospital

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4532291

Professional background

Kevin Fong is consultant anaesthetist at UCLH and professor of public engagement and innovation in the Department of Science, Technology, Education and Public Policy (STEaPP) at University College London. Dually accredited in anaesthesia and critical care medicine, he also works as a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) doctor with Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex. In March 2020, Kevin was seconded to NHS England as National Clinical Advisor in Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response for the COVID-19 incident.

He is an honorary senior lecturer in physiology at University College London, where he organises and runs an undergraduate course in Extreme Environment Physiology. He studied astrophysics and medicine at University College London and a masters in astronautics and space engineering at Cranfield University. He is a member of Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of anaesthetists and has completed postgraduate clinical training in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. Kevin has a long standing interest in human space exploration and space medicine and has worked with NASA's Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Office at Johnson Space Centre in Houston.

Specialties

Research interests

Anaesthesia and critical care

Aerospace medicine

Human factors

Publications

  • The mental health of staff working in intensive care during COVID-19 Greenberg N, Weston D, Hall C, Caulfield T, Williamson V, Fong K PRE-PRINT medRxiv 2020.11.03.20208322; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.03.20208322
  • Harris S, Palmer E, Fong K. Trials in pandemics: here we go again? Br J Anaesth. 2020 Oct 10:S0007-0912(20)30840-0. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.10.008. Epub ahead of print.
  • Fong K. Moon landing: space medicine and the legacy of Project Apollo. Lancet. 2019 Jul 20;394(10194):205-207.
  • Hodkinson PD, Anderton RA, Posselt BN, Fong KJ Br J Anaesth. 2017 Dec 1;119(suppl_1):i143-i153. doi: 10.1093/bja/aex336.
  • An overview of space medicine.
  • Close RM, Maguire H, Etherington G, Brewin CR, Fong K, Saliba V, Barker RM, Leonardi GS. Preparedness for a major incident: Creation of an epidemiology protocol for a health protection register in England. Environ Int. 2014 Nov;72:75-82.
  • Kelly FE, Fong K, Hirsch N, Nolan JP. Intensive care medicine is 60 years old: the history and future of the intensive care unit. Clin Med. 2014 Aug;14(4):376-9.
  • Ghosh SK, Rahman FZ, Bown S, Harris P, Fong K, Langmead L. Survival following Treatment of Aortoesophageal Fistula with Dual Esophageal and Aortic Intervention. Case Rep Gastroenterol. 2011 Jan 14;5(1):40-4.
  • Fong KJ. Risk management, NASA, and the National Health Service: lessons we should learn. Br J Anaesth. 2010 Jul;105(1):6-8.
  • Fong KJ, Arya M, Paloski WH. Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Tolerance to Short Arm Centrifugation. J Gravit Physiol. 2007 Jul;14(1):P15-9.
  • Fong KJ, Lohn JWG, Brett SJ, Healy M, Leonard R, Lockey D, Montgomery HM, Shaw S, Shirley P, Ward P, Whitely C, Withey S, Challoner E The 7th July London Suicide Bombings – One Year On. Care of the Critically Ill Patient, 2006 Vol 22 Number 3, p1-2
  • Fong KJ, Lohn JWG, Brett SJ, Healy M, Leonard R, Lockey D, Montgomery HM, Shaw S, Shirley P, Ward P, Whitely C, Withey S, Challoner E The 7th July London Suicide Bombings – One Year On. Care of the Critically Ill Patient, 2006 Vol 22 Number 3, p1-2
  • Montgomery HM, Fong KJ, The London Bombings, A Personal View, Journal of the Intensive Care Society, Volume 6 Number, p12-13, 2005
  • Fong K. Human spaceflight in the UK: the cost of non-participation. Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 94, Numbers 3-4, June 2004, pp. 169-176(8)
  • Fong K. The Next Small Step. British Medical Journal. 2004 Dec 18;329(7480):1441-4.
  • Fong K. Life in Space: An Introduction to Space Life Sciences and the International Space Station. Earth, Moon and Planets 87 (3): 121-126, 1999
  • McKeefry DJ, Watson JD, Frackowiak RS, Fong K, Zeki S. The activity in human areas V1/V2, V3, and V5 during the perception of coherent and incoherent motion. Neuroimage. 1997 Jan;5(1):1-12.