HIV Clinical Topics in Antiretroviral Therapy workshop 2022

Josep M Llibre, MD, PhD, received his MD in the Universitat de Barcelona, and obtained his specialty in Internal Medicine and his PhD in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is a member of the panel of Antiretroviral treatment guidelines at the GeSIDA group (AIDS group of the SEIMC Spanish society), and an expert advisor of the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) on antiretroviral treatment and hepatitis C (PADEICS). He started caring for patients with HIV/AIDS at the beginning of the epidemic in Spain in 1987. His main areas of interest in HIV Medicine include the clinical implications of HIV-1 resistance, the analysis of safety and efficacy in HIV-1 antiretroviral treatment clinical trials (both in naïve and pre-treated patients), with a special interest in drug efficacy and pharmacoeconomics, and hepatitis C co-infection. He has published widely in journals and book chapters, as well as HIV/AIDS medical webs, on clinical aspects of HIV-1 treatment and care, HIV-1 resistance, clinical reviews, positioning papers, treatment intensification and simplification strategies, and participated in many pivotal clinical trials. He has also published in basic science research journals. He collaborates as an editor and/or peer-reviewing with many top international medical journals. He is involved in HIV Medical Educational training in Spain and other European, as well as Asian Countries.

Chloe Orkin is Professor of HIV Medicine at Queen Mary University of London and Consultant Physician at Barts Health NHS Trust. She is the Clinical Lead for COVID-19 studies at Barts Health. Chloe is immediate past Chair of the British HIV Association, President-elect of the Medical Women’s Federation and a member of the governing council for IAS. Her specialist interest is anti-retroviral therapy.

Professor Orkin has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored four British HIV Association guidelines on: Antiretroviral therapy, Hepatitis, Malignancy and Routine Monitoring.

University of Bonn, Germany

Rigshospitalet Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark