18th International Symposium on Neuropsychiatry & HIV

Esteban Martinez studied at the Faculty of Medicine in Valladolid, Spain, from 1980 to 1986. He specialized in Internal Medicine at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona in 1992, and, in 1996, he received his PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with studies on neurosurgical infections.

In 1994, Esteban Martinez started working at the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and, since 2001, he has been teaching infectious diseases at the University of Barcelona as Associate Professor of Medicine. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Co-morbidities in HIV, has co-authored the Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Non-Infectious Co-Morbidities in HIV (European AIDS Clinical Society), is a member of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) and was elected Regional Representative (Southern Europe) of the EACS in 2012, and has been a founding member of the International Symposium on Psychiatry and HIV. He is a member of the Editorial Board of HIV Medicine, The Scientific World Journal and The Open AIDS Journal.

Jordi Blanch, MD PhD and degree in Philosophy, is currently Director of Mental Health and Addiction Services in Gestió de Serveis Sanitaris in Lleida, Consultant in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry of the Clinical Institute of Neurosciences in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Associate Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Barcelona, and Member of the research group CIBERSAM

He has been Chief of the Outpatient and Inpatient Psychiatry Clinics in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona; Medical Coordinator in Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona; Chair for Educational Affairs of the Clinical Institute of Neurosciences in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona,  president of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry, president of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine, and Director of the Mental Health and Addictions Program of the Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia.

For more than twenty years he has conducted clinical, research and educational work in HIV Psychiatry. His areas of expertise in HIV Mental Health include depression, psychopharmacology, drug interactions, and psychotherapy in HIV.

He has also been done clinical work in psychiatric and psychological disorders in severely ill medical patients (oncology, bone marrow transplantation, solid organ transplantation, and others), as well as in personality disorders and anxiety disorders.