Ken Ong

Ken Ong leads the MRC Epidemiology Unit’s programme in Child Growth and Development, and is a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Department of Paediatrics and a Paediatric Endocrinologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. He qualified from Cambridge University and Guy’s Hospital, London, and trained in Southampton, London, Oxford and Cambridge. His research interest is in the genetic, endocrine and dietary regulation of normal fetal and childhood growth, and its application to the prediction and prevention of childhood obesity.