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Biographies

Professor Brian Gazzard (Director of HIV/GUM Clinical Research & Education)

Professor Gazzard trained at Queens’ College, Cambridge and King's College Hospital and became a fellow of the Royal College Physicians in 1983. He became a Consultant Physician at St Stephen’s and Westminster Hospitals in 1978, Clinical Director of the HIV/GUM Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 1990 and Professor of HIV Medicine in 1996.

He takes part in the general medical on-call rota and has a keen specialist interest in gastroenterology. He is chairman of the Trustees of the St Stephen’s AIDS Research Trust, which finances the research endeavours of the unit, and has been principal investigator of several international HIV research trials.

International education and research

• Responsible for organization of visiting programmes in HIV and Sexual Health for visiting WHO and British Council fellows
• Member of the expert advisory panel for the Overseas Development Agency with an interest in research projects in the developing world. Professor Gazzard has reviewed such projects in the Caribbean, Poland, India and parts of South Africa.
• Advised on HIV guidelines in Romania, Botswana and South Africa
• Supervised a major educational project in Botswana

Membership of National and International Committees and Organisations

• Started the British HIV Association and was its first Chairman
• Chairman of the British HIV Guidelines Writing Committee
• Trustee of the British Medical Association AIDS Foundation
• A Scientific Programmes adviser for the British Medical Association
• Member of the London Consortium which co-ordinates care and has budgetary control of HIV treatment and care across London—Chairman of the Drugs Sub-Committee of this consortium
• Member of the steering committee of the bi-annual European AIDS meetings
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the World AIDS Congress
• Council member of the European AIDS Association
• Member of the HIV Advisory Committee for the Medical Research Council
• On the board of the National AIDS Manual
• Member of the IAS USA Guidelines Committee

Publications and editorial involvement

• British HIV Guidelines
• IAS USA Guidelines Committee (used as a benchmark for much of the developed world)
• Editor of HIV Medicine
• On the Editorial Board of the International Journal of STD and AIDS, Drugs, British Clinical Practice & Genito-urinary Medicine.
• Published widely—more than 800 peer-review publications on general medicine, infectious diseases and gastroenterological and/or HIV related topics, and more than 50 chapters of books on similar subjects.
• Editor or author of 5 books on gastroenterology and HIV disease

Education

• Has given plenary talks at all the major international HIV or gastroenterology meetings.

Dr Simon E Barton (Clinical Director, HIV & Sexual Health)

BSc MD FRCOG FRCP(Edin) FRCP Clinical Director and Consultant Physician HIV/Genitourinary Medicine Directorate Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London

Dr Barton has been a consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital since 1990 and Clinical Director of the HIV & Sexual Health Directorate since 1996. He was previously registrar and research fellow at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and senior registrar at St Stephen’s and Westminster Hospitals. He completed his MD thesis on the subject of local immunology of the cervix, with particular relevance to the effects of smoking and viral infection. He has been the elected president of the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH) since 2006, previously vice president (2003-2006). He is Chair of the Royal College of Physicians Joint Specialty Committee in Genito-urinary Medicine.

His main specialty research interest is viral infections, including genital herpes and HIV infection in women. He is an executive committee member of the International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI), and Treasurer of its European branch. He is the UK representative to the Scientific Board of the EADV. He lectures at both international and UK levels and is involved in educational training within the UK. He has written over 150 papers and five books.

Dr David Asboe (Lead Clinician, Kobler Clinic)

Dr Asboe gained his medical degree at Otago University in New Zealand, before undertaking specialist training in Genito-urinary Medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. He was appointed as Consultant in Sexual Health/HIV Medicine at both Chelsea and Westminster and West Middlesex Hospitals in 1996.

David Asboe is currently the deputy convener of the Diploma HIV exam and has special interests in the sexual health of HIV positive individuals and the treatment of patients with antiretroviral resistance.

Dr Anton Pozniak (Service Director for HIV Services)

Dr Pozniak studied medicine at the University of Bristol and qualified in 1979. He started caring for patients with HIV in 1983 at Middlesex Hospital, London. He worked as a Consultant Physician in Zimbabwe where he researched for his doctorate in TB/HIV and moved back to the UK in 1991. Dr Pozniak ran the HIV unit at King’s College, London before moving to his current position as Consultant Physician/Senior Lecturer at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 1998. 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 where he has helped write the British HIV Association (BHIVA) anti-viral HIV guidelines and chairs the TB/HIV guidelines committee. He was an adviser on HIV and AIDS to the UK Government Health Select Committee and is on the expert advisory group on AIDS for the UK Department of Health. He is a DSMB member for the MRC PENTA and DART trials and is an executive member of the European AIDS Clinical Society. He is an executive committee member of the Charity LEPRA and is a trustee of the Terence Higgins Trust, the UK’s largest HIV charity.

Dr Pozniak has published widely on clinical aspects of HIV treatment and care and is Managing Director of the HIV research organisations at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

Dr Ken McLean

Dr McLean trained at Glasgow University and his early experience in Sexual Health and HIV began while working at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.

He was appointed Consultant in GUM/Sexual Health in 1989, mainly working at Charing Cross Hospital, London.

His interests include sexually transmitted infections in HIV and natural history of HIV infection.

Dr McLean also cares for HIV–infected inmates at HMP Wormwood Scrubs.

Dr Mark Nelson

Dr Nelson trained at Jesus College, Cambridge and The Westminster Medical School.  Since that time, he has worked at the Westminster Hospital, and then at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

Originally training in General Medicine, he has specialised in HIV-related medicine.

Dr Nelson is currently Service Director for the HIV Directorate, as well as Deputy Director of Research. He is a Trustee of St Stephen’s AIDS Trust, a charity dedicated to improving the lives of those living with HIV.

Dr Nelson’s major interests are co-infection with Hepatitis B and C. He also chairs the International Development Unit, which has educational projects throughout Africa and Asia.