Officers
Professor Jane Anderson - Chair
Professor Jane Anderson is Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV, and a Consultant Physician at Homerton University Hospital in London. Professor Anderson has clinical and research interests in HIV infection in migrant populations and in women and families. Her work engages with the medical, social, ethical and policy challenges posed by HIV, in diverse communities in east London. Professor Anderson sits on the BHIVA Conferences and Guidelines Subcommittees and took over as Chair of BHIVA at the Annual Conference in April 2011. She will serve as Chair to April 2014.
Dr Andrew Freedman - Honorary Secretary
Dr Andrew Freedman is Reader/Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Cardiff University and University Hospital of Wales, where he has worked since 1994. He was on the Department of Health Expert Advisory Group on AIDS from 1996 until 2006. Dr Freedman is on the BHIVA Audit and Standards, and Education and Scientific Subcommittees. He was elected as BHIVA Secretary in 2009 for a 3-year term.
Professor Clifford Leen - Honorary Treasurer
Professor Clifford Leen is a Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and HIV at the Western General Hospital Edinburgh. He now leads a research unit involved in international and national studies on the treatment of HIV and hepatitis C. He is Chair of the Education and Scientific Subcommittee and Secretary of the BHIVA Hepatitis Working Group Executive Panel. He was a member of the BHIVA Executive Committee (2003-7) and Scottish HIV Advisory Group (SHIVAG) executive committees and has been on the BHIVA treatment guidelines writing committee since 2003. He has been appointed on the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS, and is a member of the UK Medical Research Council College of Experts Consortium. He is also the Transitional Board Head of training for Infectious Diseases in Scotland. He is on the MRCP (UK) Part Examination Board and on the board of examiners for the Diploma in HIV Medicine. Professor Leen chairs the BHIVA Education and Scientific Subcommittee.
Executive members
Dr David Asboe
Dr David Asboe is a Consultant Physician at Chelsea and Westminster and West Middlesex Hospitals. Dr Asboe is Deputy-convener for the Diploma in HIV Medicine, founding editorial board member journal HIV Clinical Trials, a reviewer for several other journals and co-principal investigator for the MRC FORTE study. His clinical and research interests include ARV resistance and the sexual health of HIV-positive individuals. Within BHIVA, Dr Asboe sits on the Education and Scientific and Guidelines Subcommittees.
Dr Sanjay Bhagani
Sanjay Bhagani is a Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases/HIV Medicine and General (Internal) Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He has a sub-specialty interest in managing patients with HIV and hepatitis co-infection and has served on the HIV/hepatitis co-infection management guidelines committees of EACS and BHIVA. He is committed to education and training in HIV medicine for doctors in the developing world and has been involved in delivering training programmes in East Africa and the Indian sub-continent. He is passionate about fostering further educational links with the developing world.
Professor Mark Bower
Professor Mark Bower is professor of oncology at Imperial College with a specialist interest in HIV associated malignancy and run a tertiary referral practice. He chaired the BHIVA malignancy guidelines writing group and has contributed to the BHIVA Opportunistic Infections guidelines. He has a clinical and basic research programme studying aspects of HIV malignancy.
Dr Duncan Churchill
Duncan Churchill has been a Consultant in GU/HIV Medicine at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton since 1999, and Lead Consultant for over 7 years. He trained at Oxford, The Middlesex Hospital, and at St. Mary’s. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the British HIV Association from 1996-2004, and has been on the BHIVA guidelines writing committee since its inception.
Dr Annemiek de Ruiter
Dr Annemiek de Ruiter is a Consultant Physician in HIV/GUM at St Thomas' Hospital, London and has managed HIV-positive patients for over 20 years, specialising in the management of pregnant women with HIV. She has published extensively, formed local and national networks, collaborated widely, advised at a national level, lectured nationally and internationally and led the development of the BHIVA 2008 pregnancy guidelines.
Dr Martin Fisher
Dr Martin Fisher is a Consultant in HIV/GUM in Brighton, having previously worked in four different London units. Dr Fisher follows a large cohort of HIV outpatients, provides specialist inpatient HIV care, leads a research unit (with interests in antiretroviral therapy, PHI and STI/HIV interactions) and convenes the Diploma in HIV Medicine. Dr Fisher was elected to chair the Guidelines Subcommittee from January 2011 and also sits on the Education and Scientific Subcommittee. He was BHIVA Honorary Secretary from 2006 - 2009.
Dr Ranjababu Kulasegaram
Dr Ranjababu (Babu) Kulasegaram is Consultant in HIV/GU Medicine at St.Thomas’ Hospital and leads the HIV Treatment Advice Clinic with special interests in HIV/Hepatitis, Haemophilia/HIV infection and HIV inpatient management. He is Training Programme Director for the SpRs and is committed to enhancing BHIVA’s educational activities.
Dr Alastair Miller
Consultant Physician at Tropical & Infectious Disease Unit at Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Honorary Fellow at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Managing large out patient HIV cohort and numerous complex in patients. Involved in HIV care since 1984. Co-investigator on PIVOT trial.
Dr Mark Nelson
Dr Mark Nelson is HIV Service Director of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He is on the BHIVA Opportunistic Infections (Joint Chair), Hepatitis C/HIV (Chair) and Toxicity (Co-chair) Guidelines Writing Groups. He is Head of International Development for St Stephens AIDS Trust and Trustee of the International Collaboration for Health Equality for All (ICEHA). Dr Nelson chairs the BHIVA Hepatitis Working Group.
Dr Ed Ong
Dr Ed Ong is a Consultant Physician/Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine at Newcastle General Hospital, Health Protection Agency Honorary Consultant, an NHS Independent Clinical Assessor, Regional Advisor/Programme Director in Infectious Diseases, and Diploma in HIV Medicine Examiner and is on the MRC College of Experts. He has been principal investigator in numerous clinical HIV trials and is published widely. Dr Ong was elected Chair of the Audit and Standards Subcommittee in January 2011 and also sits on the Education and Scientific Subcommittee.
Dr Adrian Palfreeman
Dr Adrian Palfreeman is a Consultant Physician in GU medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Dr Palfreeman is on the BHIVA Conferences and Guidelines Subcommittees.
Junior Consultant and Non-Consultant Doctors' Representative
Dr Carol Emerson
Dr Carol Emerson is a consultant in HIV/GUM at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Since her appointment in August 2008 she has established outreach HIV testing services to saunas, colleges and a juvenile justice centre. These services received a Chairman’s Award. She sits on the Governance Committee of BASHH and is part of the Writing Group for the BHIVA Guidelines on Treating Women with HIV in the UK.
Editor HIV Medicine
Professor Brian Gazzard CBE
Professor Brian Gazzard is Professor of HIV Medicine and Clinical Research Director at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. His main interests are in gastrointestinal manifestations of HIV disease and in antiretroviral therapy. In 2002, in recognition of the achievements of the HIV/GUM unit at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Professor Gazzard was awarded a prize for clinical leadership at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Terrence Higgins Trust, and the 'Outstanding Achiever for Health Award'. Professor Gazzard was the Founding Chair of BHIVA.
Appointed Members
Dr Simon Edwards
Simon Edwards has been a Consultant in GU/HIV Medicine at the Mortimer Market Centre and UCLH since 2000. He is the current Chair of the BASHH HIV Special Interest Group. He is Joint Chair of the BHIVA Guidelines Writing Group for Opportunistic Infections and has previously been on the BHIVA Executive Committee (2005-8).
Professor Saye Khoo
Saye Khoo is Hon Consultant Physician and clinical lead for HIV in Merseyside, and was appointed as Professor in the Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool in 2009. Research interests are around optimising HIV treatment for individuals and populations, and these encompass studying the pharmacology of sanctuary sites, therapeutic drug monitoring, population pharmacokinetic modelling, pharmacogenetics, drug interactions and medication error. Saye Khoo has contributed to guidelines on management of HIV infection for BHIVA, British Infection Association and WHO, and has worked with Professor David Back to develop the HIV drug interactions website www.hiv-druginteractions.org.
Ms Silvia Petretti
Silvia Petretti is an HIV+ woman and activist based in London UK. She is one of a handful of women in the UK who are living openly with HIV and she is deeply committed to challenge stigma and discrimination directed towards women living with HIV. In her role as Community Development Manager at Positively Women Silvia has been leading on national work, supporting HIV+ women around the UK developing self-help groups as well as providing support to drug using women and women in prison. Since 2004 Silvia has been coordinating Poz-Fem UK: The National Network of Women Living with HIV, which aims to skill up WLHIV to influence decisions that affect them, and has played a central role in producing the report: Women HIV and Sexual Health in the UK. Silvia has also contributed to the participatory research by drug using women in London: Silent Voices. She is in the editorial team of Positively Women magazine and she contributes with regular articles, she also has her blog: The Diary of an HIV+ Activist - www.hivpolicyspeakup.wordpress.com. Silvia has spoken on issues affecting women with HIV for many years at international conferences including IAC in Mexico 2008 and national conferences including BHIVA 2008. In 2009 Silvia was appointed to be on the Leadership and Accountability Programme Committee for Vienna 2010 and to be Community Representative on the British HIV Association Board of Trustees.
Dr Karen Rogstad
Consultant Sexual Health/HIV Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Undergraduate Dean Sheffield Medical School. Provides outpatient and inpatient HIV care, co-lead for Transitional Care S. Yorkshire HIV Network. Co-author HIV testing, and reckless transmission, guidelines. Soon to demit as Chair of BASHH Education committee, on organising committee joint BHIVA/BASHH conference 2010.
Terms of Reference
The Terms of Reference for the Executive Committee are currently being updated and will be published in due course.