Jeffrey Lipman
About Professor Jeffrey Lipman
Honorary Professorial Fellow
Professor Jeffrey Lipman is a career Intensivist, having worked full-time in Intensive Care Units since 1979.
He received his medical degree (MBBCh) from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and has specialist qualifications in anaesthesia (DA, FFA) and intensive care (FFA Crit Care, FCICM). Prior to moving to Australia in 1997 he was Head of ICU at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Currently he is Director of the Intensive Care Services (Royal Brisbane and Womens’ Hospital), Professor and Head of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Queensland. He also is the Executive Director of the Burns, Trauma, Critical Care Research Centre at this University. He has Adjunct Professorial appointments at Queensland University of Technology, University of Sydney and the University of Witwatersrand.
His research interests include all aspects of infection management in intensive care. He has a special interest in the pharmacokinetics of antibiotics, an area in which he completed his MD through the Chinese University of Hong Kong.