Dr. David Kipp

CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGIST

MBBS, BMedSc, FRACP, FRCPA

David is an experienced clinical haematologist and bone marrow transplant physician. He graduated from The University of Melbourne in 2002 and underwent advanced training in haematology at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and The Alfred. He undertook a two-year fellowship in bone marrow transplantation at The Alfred in 2011 and 2012 and started working at University Hospital Geelong as a consultant haematologist in 2013, a position that he held till 2025. He has been a member of the Precision Haematology team since 2021, is a visiting medical officer at Epworth Freemasons and Richmond, and holds a position as a clinical haematologist and bone marrow transplant physician at The Alfred.

He looks after patients with a wide range of benign and malignant haematological conditions. David has special expertise in allogeneic stem cell transplantation and in the management of patients with acute leukaemia, myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms, particularly myelofibrosis.

David is a clinician-scientist whose research interests also include cellular senescence, DNA damage sensing mechanisms, and inflammatory cell death. In his current research he is examining the molecular biology of myelofibrosis in order to identify novel approaches to target chronic inflammation, fibrosis and leukemic transformation. He is the 2025 recipient of a prestigious HSANZ/Leukaemia Foundation PhD scholarship.