BMF announces risk specialist for All Industry Conference

Prof Fong is a consultant in anaesthesia at London’s University College Hospital (UCL) and part of their emergency response and major incident planning team. He was seconded to NHS England as national clinical adviser in emergency preparedness resilience and response for Covid 19.

He also worked as an academic and completed training rotations at America’s leading Space Centers, before founding the Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment (CASE) Medicine at UCL, which looks at the parallels that exist between critical illness and the physiology of extreme environments.

From space travel to emergency medical response, Prof Fong has combined insights into planning, human reactions and behaviours, engineering, and psychology to understand risk and decision making. His broad range of interests and experiences means he can address how teams work and operate. He considers how those that work every day under pressure, under stress and with high risk deal with it to make the right calls, and quickly learn from mistakes.

Prof Fong holds degrees in astrophysics, medicine and engineering and is also a science and medical broadcaster and writer. He is a regular contributor to programmes on the past, present, and future of space travel and has presented numerous editions of BBC 2’s Horizon including Back from the Dead and How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery.

The BMF All Industry Conference 2023 takes place in Istanbul from June 15-18, with the support of headline sponsor Knauf UK. Book at www.bmfconference.co.uk or contact June.Upton@bmf.org.uk