Taking up the Mantle: From Diagnostic Imaging to Marine Conservation
Brian Chin Wing Kot |
TEDxCityUHongKong
• June 2021
Dr Brian Kot is a registered diagnostic radiographer and veterinary imaging researcher in the City University of Hong Kong. He obtained his BSc in Radiography and PhD in Diagnostic Imaging from PolyU under the supervision of Dr Fiona Brook (PI of 1st successful dolphin artificial insemination project worldwide) and Dr Michael Ying, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He completed his certificate course in virtopsy (postmortem radiology) with Prof Michael Thali and his team in 2016 at the University of Zurich. Brian joins the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health and the Department of Chemistry as Assistant Professor in July 2021. He is interested in diagnostic imaging and conservation medicine in aquatic animals. His team applies diagnostic imaging on captive aquatic animals for health assessment, as well as virtopsy routinely in stranded cetaceans and sea turtles in HK and adjacent waters to investigate their biological health profiles.