Penelope K. Tippy, MD

Dr. Penelope K. Tippy, MD, received her medical degree from the University of Illinois Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in 1974. Her family medicine residency was completed at C.S. Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City, New York in 1977. She then began private solo practice in West Frankfort, Illinois, a rural community in southern Illinois. During that time, she was a clinical associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and participated in residency education. In 1982, Dr. Tippy became the Associate Director of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Family Medicine Residency, and in 1984, she assumed the position of director. Dr. Tippy remains at the Carbondale Family Medicine Residency as its director and has been promoted to full professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She was also named an Associate Chair of that department in 1993.

As director of the residency program in Carbondale, Dr. Tippy has expanded that community based program to include two family medicine centers in rural southern Illinois. She has also been actively involved in these rural communities and has recently established an adolescent health center and several on-going, school-based health projects. She is the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant Program at Southern Illinois University and was extensively involved in its development.

Dr. Tippy is a past president of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and is currently the Chair of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Program Director Development. She has been a Residency Assistance Program (RAP) Consultant from 1997 to 2005. She now serves on the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Family Medicine. Dr. Tippy received the Faculty Woman of Distinction Award from Southern Illinois University in 1998, and in 2005, the Nikitas J. Zervanos Outstanding Program Director Award by the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.