Professional background
Professor Kipps is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine at the Institute of Sport Exercise & Health at UCLH and co-leads the MSc in sports medicine, exercise & health at UCL.
He studied medicine at Nottingham University and an MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the University of London. He trained as a sport and exercise medicine physician on the London Deanery’s higher specialist training programme during which he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study sport and exercise medicine overseas. This fellowship took him to Harvard and Stanford Universities in the USA as well as Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne in 2010/11. He was appointed to his current post in 2011.
Prof Kipps is the assistant medical director of the London Marathon and has been medical director of the London and Blenheim Triathlons. Between 2012 and 2019 he was lead doctor for Harlequins Rugby Club. He is co-organiser of Marathon Medicine, the longest running conference on the medicine and science of endurance running internationally.
Specialties
Research interests
Injuries and illness in endurance sport
Contact sports injuries
Concussion
Exercise medicine