Tai-Pang Ip, specialist in endocrinology and diabetes, is currently senior medical officer in the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital (TWEH). In 2002, he was appointed honorary clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.

Dr Ip earned his medical degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1989, then subsequently underwent specialist training at the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital. In 1994, he was a training fellow at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. In 1998, he established the TWEH Osteoporosis Service, which he currently heads as physician-in-charge. He holds a number of important posts in TWEH and in the Hospital Authority’s Hong Kong Eastern Cluster (HKEC), including chairman of the Hospital Fall Prevention Committee, member of the Ethics Committee and editor of the HKEC clinical pharmacology bulletin Drug Intelligence.

Throughout the past few years, Dr Ip has been actively promoting osteoporosis awareness within the medical profession. In 2002, he helped established the Osteoporosis Society of Hong Kong, which he served as honorary secretary from 2002 to 2006, then as vice president from 2006 to 2008. He obtained certification in clinical densitometry from the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) in 2005 and was part of the guest teaching faculty of the ISCD Densitometry Course held in Hong Kong in 2008. He has delivered more than 30 lectures on osteoporosis and diabetes in various medical conferences and scientific meetings in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. He has also been actively involved in a number of clinical trials involving osteoporosis and diabetes treatments. Dr Ip authored a review article titled “Management of established osteoporosis” published in the Hong Kong Bulletin on Rheumatic Diseases in 2006.