Dr Anton Pozniak
Contact information
T: Secretary 020 3315 5620E: anton.pozniak@nhs.net
Service
HIV and Sexual Health, Kobler Clinic
Specialities
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis
Professional expertise
- Tuberculosis
- Investigator and Collaborator on many Therapeutic Clinical Trials of HIV therapies.
- Published on many aspects of tuberculosis (especially regarding the association with HIV)
Profile
Dr Anton Pozniak studied medicine at the University of Bristol UK and qualified in 1979. He started caring for patients with HIV in 1983 at the Middlesex Hospital, London UK. He went to Zimbabwe as a Consultant Physician in 1989 where he researched for his doctorate in TB/HIV and then moved back to the UK in 1991. He ran the HIV research unit at King’s College, London before moving to his current position as Consultant Physician/Senior Lecturer at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 1998 and was the the HIV Service Director until 2018 and Head of the Tuberculosis services. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996. Dr Pozniak has been made a Life member of the British HIV Association and has helped write the British HIV Association (BHIVA) anti-viral HIV guidelines and chairs the TB/HIV guidelines committee. He is a DSMB chair for MRC PENTA studies and part of He was an advisor on HIV and AIDS to the UK Government Health Select Committee and the Expert advisory group on AIDS for the UK Department of Health. He is President of the International AIDS Society and Governing Board member of the European AIDS Clinical Society and Lead for its antiviral guideline committee. He is President of the European AIDS trial network NEAT-ID and Principal Investigator for a Test and Treat project in Tanzania. He is a board member of the charity CUAMM, Doctors for Africa (UK). He has published widely on clinical aspects of HIV treatment and care and HIV tuberculosis.
Other contributions
HIV service Director, TB service Lead , Trust Antibiotic policy goup,
Qualifications
MB ChB MD FRCP
GMC number
2481362
Memberships
Dr Pozniak has been made a Life member of the British HIV Association and has helped write the British HIV Association (BHIVA) anti-viral HIV guidelines and chairs the TB/HIV guidelines committee. He is a DSMB chair for MRC PENTA studies and part of He was an advisor on HIV and AIDS to the UK Government Health Select Committee and the Expert advisory group on AIDS for the UK Department of Health. He is President of the International AIDS Society and Governing Board member of the European AIDS Clinical Society and Lead for its antiviral guideline committee. He is President of the European AIDS trial network NEAT-ID and Principal Investigator for a Test and Treat project in Tanzania. He is a board member of the charity CUAMM, Doctors for Africa (UK).