Rules of the Association

The BHIVA Rules of the Association were redrafted in 2008.
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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 Adrian Palfreeman - Honorary Secretary
Dr Adrian Palfreeman is a Consultant Physician in GU medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Dr Palfreeman is on the BHIVA Conferences Subcommittee and is vice-chair of the Guidelines Subcommittee. He was elected as BHIVA Honorary Secretary in 2012 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 and was the Secretary of the BHIVA Hepatitis Working Group Executive Panel. He is a member of the BHIVA Executive Committee) and Scottish HIV Advisory Group (SHIVAG) executive committees and has been on the BHIVA Treatment Guidelines Writing Committee since 2003. He was appointed on the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS, and was a member of the UK Medical Research Council College of Experts Consortium. He is Training Programme Director for Infectious Diseases in Scotland. Professor Leen chaired the BHIVA Education and Scientific Subcommittee from 2008 to 2011. He is a member of the management group of Edinburgh University’s Centre for Infectious Diseases since 2008.


 

External scrutineers

• Professor Jane Anderson Homerton University Hospital, London

• Mr S Collins UK Community Advisory Board
• Prof BG Gazzard Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
• Prof MA Johnson Royal Free Hospital, London
• Prof SB Lucas St Thomas' Hospital, London
• Dr IG Williams University College London Medical School