Kevin Fong

Dr Kevin Fong is a leading expert on space medicine in the UK and the co-director of the Centre for Aviation Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (CASE Medicine), University College London. He is also a Lecturer in Physiology at UCL.

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Specialist registrar in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine.
Fellow of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts.
Chair of the UK Space Biomedical Advisory Committee.
Co-Founder and Co-Director of CASE Medicine, Royal Free and University College London Medical School.
Honorary Lecturer in Physiology at UCL.
Trained and worked with NASA at Johnson Space Center, Houston and Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral.
Advisor to the British National Space Centre.
Medical officer for diving expedition in Fiji (2003).

Featured in Esquire magazine's 2004 list “UK’s 100 Most Influential Men Under 40”.
Presented Channel 4’s “Superhumans”.
Guest in Material World (BBC Radio 4), on January 20, 2000 where Dr Kevin Fong argued for British participation in space travel research, particularly focusing on the long-term effects on the human frame. A 1,000-day mission to Mars was due in 2004. However, it had been argued that, unless the European Space Agency and its partners had understood what could happen to a crew journeying through areas of high radiation, the project may have been scuppered.
Was interviewed on channel 4 program Sunshine about the making of the Danny Boyle film of the same name. He gave opinions and physiological risks of long-term space travel, and how these had been dealt with in a realistic manner in the film.