Aging in HIV 2022

Pedro Cahn has been Scientific Director of Fundación Huésped since 1989 and former President of the International AIDS Society (IAS) for the period 2006-2008. Former Head and current Consultant of the Infectology Division of the Juan A. Fernández Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also Full Professor of the Department of Medicine, Infectology Orientation, of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Cahn has been involved in international HIV/AIDS conferences and working groups since 1989, including the 1st Conference on Pathogenesis and Treatment of IAS in Argentina and the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico, which he chaired. Likewise, on repeated occasions, he has acted as an advisor to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS. He is an Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires and received the honorable mention “Senator Domingo F. Sarmiento” by the Senate of the Nation (2014).

Dr. Clotet received his MD (1976) and his PhD (1981), with a thesis on autoimmune diseases, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). That same year, his internship as an Internal Medicine specialist at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona coincided with the first AIDS case reported in Spain. This case was the catalyst for a career dedicated to this serious disease, first as head of the HIV Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona (1987-2015) and then as founder and president of the Fight against AIDS Foundation (1992), which is now named as Fight Infections Foundation.

Dr. Clotet soon saw the need to go a step beyond patient care to conduct research aimed at eradicating AIDS. In 1995, with the support of “la Caixa” and the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he founded the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, which he still heads.  In addition, Dr. Clotet is also the clinical director of Infectious Diseases at the Metropolitana Nord area of the Catalan Institute of Health, scientific advisor to two IrsiCaixa spin-offs: Aelix Therapeutics SL and AlbaJuna Therapeutics SL and director of the Chair of AIDS and Related Diseases at the Universitat de Vic (UVic).

He has published more than 1000 papers in high impact international journals and his contributions to research have been recognized with the Josep Trueta medal to Sanitary Merit and the ‘Premi Nacional de Recerca’, among other awards.

Eugènia Negredo completed the specialty of Internal Medicine at the Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, in 1998. She received her Ph.D. in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in 2002. Since 1999, Dr. Negredo works as a physician in the HIV Unit of Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Barcelona, and she leads the research group focused on the epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment of different HIV- and antiretroviral-related complications. She is also Associate Professor of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Vic.

Zulma Ortiz is a physician specialized in Clinical Medicine and Rheumatology (University of Córdoba and University of Buenos Aires). Master in Epidemiology, Management and Health Policies (University of Lanús). She is currently Director of Research Fundación Huésped and Coordinator of the Master in Translational Research at the Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. She is also Head of the Chair of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the School of Medicine of the National University of Cuyo. She was Minister of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires between 2015 and 2017.