Dr Darren Green

Emergency and sports physician, event Chief Medical Officer, broadcaster and keynote speaker.

Darren heads up event medicine for Mediclinic Southern Africa, has spent more than a decade explaining health on South African television and radio, and speaks to boardrooms and schools about the neuroscience of change.

Medicine

A practising emergency and sports physician who runs the medicine behind some of the country’s biggest events.

Darren leads the corporate events department at Mediclinic Southern Africa, overseeing medical support for major events: pre-hospital care, field hospitals and ICU capability at remote sites.

He studied medicine at Stellenbosch University, followed by four years of postgraduate training in neurology and a master’s in Sports and Exercise Medicine. He has lectured in clinical neurology at Stellenbosch, in neuroleadership at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, and in exercise physiology at the Sports Science Institutes in Newlands and Stellenbosch.

Event medicine

Event Chief Medical Officer, British & Irish Lions Tour 2021
Medical lead, Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022
Chief Medical Officer, HSBC World Sevens, Cape Town
World Athletics Medical Director, Cape Town Marathon
Chief Medical Director, Cape Town Cycle Tour
Chief Race Doctor, Absa Cape Epic and Wines2Whales
External events and medical consultant, SA Rugby
World Rugby faculty trainer for South Africa
Junior Springboks medical consultant (2018) and SA U20 Women's team doctor (2019)

Expedition doctor

As an expedition doctor for the Department of Environmental Affairs, Darren has voyaged with the South African National Antarctic Programme to Marion Island, where he helps shape the island’s medical services.

He was voyage doctor on the SA Agulhas mission to the UK in support of Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ The Coldest Journey, a crossing of Antarctica raising funds for treatable blindness, and has sailed to Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island with leading scientists aboard the SA Agulhas II.

Media

For more than a decade Darren has made medicine make sense on air, turning complex health questions into something people can use.

Television

Resident health expert on Expresso. SAFTA-nominated Best Presenter for SABC3’s Doctors Orders, host of Tussen Ons and of his own kykNET show, MEDIES met Dr Darren Green.

Radio

Started on the 94.5 KFM breakfast show with Ryan O’Connor, then resident medical expert on 567 CapeTalk and host of the #HeartMindSoul wellness feature on Heart FM breakfast for more than three years. Regular guest on Radio 702 and 5FM.

Print and online

National columnist for IOL, with weekly pieces in the Cape Argus and the Daily News for five years, and health consultant to News24.

Music

The singing doctor: a trained tenor who has shared stages with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra.

Music runs in the family; his father and grandfather used their talents in worship and community outreach. Darren played soprano saxophone in the Grey High School wind band, sang lead for Stellenbosch’s Hippokrates serenade team for five years, and was a finalist in the first season of SA Idols.

Trained in opera under the late tenor Sir Lloyd Strauss Smith and Professor Virginia Davids at the UCT Opera School, he sings crossover pop, big band, ballads and opera. He performed at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday and for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Ubuntu campaign.

In Fusion, his album of six originals and seven covers produced by Helmut Meijer, was the first South African pop album mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London, by Geoff Pesche.

Motivation and speaking

Disruptive, provocative and warm. Darren speaks on change, performance and wellness, in English and Afrikaans.

Drawing on clinical practice and the corporate applications of neuroscience, he works with boardrooms, schools and conferences. He is a senior brain coach and neuro-wellness facilitator for Neurozone Global, and speaks on health matters linked to behavioural economics.

Talks

Audiences include

Standard Bank, FNB Private Wealth, Old Mutual Wealth, Sanlam Investments, Glacier, BDO International, BMW SA, BP, SAICA, Cipla, Hatch Global, Rand Water, KWV, La Motte, Curro Schools, the Allan Gray speaker series at the UCT Graduate School of Business, and the national Departments of Health, Sport and Agriculture.

Boards and causes

Grey Foundation Trust board member, Neurodiversity Trust board member and Stellenberg High School governing body member. National ambassador for the JAG Foundation and the Sunflower Fund, and a voice for the Movember men’s health campaign.

Book Dr Green

Speaking, media, event medical cover or a collaboration: send a message and it goes straight to Darren.

This form isn’t for medical advice. Please see your own doctor, and in an emergency call 112 from a mobile phone.