Affiliation
Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand

Address

PO Box 2072

Houghton

2041 Johannesburg

South Africa

 

 

Contact

Btipping@mweb.co.za

 

Biosketch

Dr Tipping is a Specialist Geriatrician and Physician in full-time private academic practice at the University of the Witwatersrand Donald Gordon Medical Centre and Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a registered specialist Geriatrician and completed all of his training in Africa (at the University of Cape Town). He is currently establishing Geriatric Medicine in Gauteng Province in South Africa.

 

Key research/capacity building interests

 

Research Interests

• Stroke and cognitive impairment/dementia

Capacity Building Interests

• All areas of Geriatric Medicine training and education including that of non-medical doctor health personnel

Current/planned research 

• At present the establishing of hopefully the largest geriatric in-patient unit in South Africa at the Helen Joseph Hospital is underway. Once this is completed collecting baseline data will be an initial project

Current engagement in capacity building

•  A comprehensive programme of geriatric care for in-patients in the currently being established geriatric unit at the Helen Joseph Hospital which unit will allow training of sub-specialists in Geriatric Medicine