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DR ANTHONY YIP
CARDIOLOGIST
MBBCh (Wits) MSc (Medicine) (Wits) FCP (SA) MRCP (UK) Cert. Cardiology (SA) FRCP (Lond) FRCP(Edin) FESC
Dr Yip is a practicing cardiologist in Johannesburg with over 20 years experience in the medical field. His specialist experience is in interventional cardiology (coronary interventions), non-invasive cardiology and advanced echocardiography with interests in coronary interventions, cardiorenal syndromes, the athlete’s heart, cardiology in women, valvular heart disease and conditions of the aorta.
He has been a specialist physician since 2003, a fully registered cardiologist since 2006 and also obtained Membership of the Royal Colleges in the UK in November 2002.
Having graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1997, Dr Yip held several posts in the public hospitals of Johannesburg where he served as a Registrar in General Medicine at the Johannesburg, Helen Joseph and Baragwanath Hospitals between 2000 to 2003. From there he was a Fellow in Cardiology at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and Soweto South Africa until 2006. He served further as a Consultant Cardiologist at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School from 2007 to 2013.
Dr Yip’s interests lie in the investigation of cardiac involvement in chronic kidney disease and has published a number of articles in both local and international medical journals in this area. In 2018, he was invited to serve on a working committee in Vienna by KDIGO (Kidney disease for international global outcomes) in drawing up their guidelines on the management of cardiac disease in renal failure.
He is an elected fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.
QUEEN MOTSIE
RECEPTIONIST & ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Queen Motsie joined Dr Yip’s Practice in April 2017 with her warm enthusiasm and caring presence. Having worked at the UN for 18 months, Queen is no stranger to the office environment. Queen is our first port of call at the Practice and she looks forward to hearing from you if there is anything you need assistance with.
PHINDILE DLAMINI
CATHLAB NURSE
With over 20 years’ nursing experience in cardiology, Sister Phindi started her career at the Johannesburg General Hospital, and is now practicing in the Catheterisation Lab (Cathlab) at the Life Fourways Hospital.
Sister Phindi and Dr Yip have a close working relationship that spans over 16 years, having worked together since 2000 where Dr Yip was a trainee in Internal Medicine at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (formerly Johannesburg General Hospital). Sister Phindi assists Dr Yip in all his procedures that he carries out in the Cathlab.
Sister Phindi studied at the Baragwanath Nursing College between 1990 and 1994, later specialising in cardiology.
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