Kee Seong Ng
Clinical Research Fellow

Kee graduated from Prince’s University, Malaysia. He started training in medicine in 2002 and worked as a senior house officer in medicine, paediatrics, surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and as a radiology registrar at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Sabah, Malaysia.

He completed the MSc in Gastroenterology (Merit) course at Queen Mary in 2007, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Neurogastroenterology. He was awarded the Malaysian Hemophiliac Foundation Award for his BSc (medical sciences) research project. He was the 1st Runner-up at the Sabah State level Quality Assurance Convention, 2005, and was involved in the National Perinatal Mortality Registry and the National Oral Cancer Research.

Project: Neurophysiological correlates of nausea in healthy subjects

Nausea and vomiting are amongst the most common symptoms encountered in medicine as either symptoms of disease or side effects of treatments. However, nausea is poorly-treated as the central mechanisms are not fully understood. Furthermore, there are few objective physiological measures currently available to study nausea and there is poor understanding of the brain neuronal network that is involved in nausea induction.

The work proposes to develop a human model of nausea, combining established and novel measures of peripheral and central reactivity (neurohypophysial hormones, autonomic nervous system and gastrointestinal measurements), and also to perform psychological assessments to different nausea-inducing paradigms.