Mike Tipton MBE, PhD, MSc, FTPS

Professor Tipton has worked at the Universities of Surrey and Portsmouth. He is a visiting professor at King’s College London and SETU Waterford, Ireland. He was Consultant Head of the Environmental Medicine Division at the Institute of Naval Medicine from 1996 to 2004. He has published over 800 scientific books, papers, reports and abstracts on drowning, thermoregulation, environmental and occupational physiology, and survival in the sea.

Professor Tipton was a Trustee/Director of Surf Lifesaving GB, he is a member of the Council of the RNLI as well as a Consultant to the Medical Director of the RNLI. He has been a consultant in survival and thermal medicine to the Royal Air Force, UKSport and the English Institute of Sport. Prof Tipton Chair of the National Water Safety Forum , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow, Trustee and President-elect of The Physiological Society (https://www.physoc.org/). He was awarded his MBE for services to physiological research in extreme environments; the Ireland Medal for saving lives from drowning worldwide; and the H&L Swiftwater rescue lifetime achievement award from the USA.