Since the creation of this platform, an editorial board made up of experts in the management of HIV patients from all over Europe was formed to review and ensure the quality of the content.
Juan Ambrosioni
Juan Ambrosioni MD, Ph.D., is an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He works as an infectious diseases specialist at the Infectious Diseases Service of Hospital Clinic, Barcelona and as Junior Team Leader of IDIBAPS. He has published more than 90 articles indexed in PubMed (more than 30 as the first author) in the field of infectious diseases, in particular, HIV / AIDS infection. He is Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and AIDS at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and he is a reviewer of the main journals of the field. His main research interests are primary HIV infection, opportunistic infections and pharmacology (including resistance) of antiretroviral drugs and antimicrobials.
David Burger
David Burger (Oct. 20, 1964) received his Pharmacy Degree at the Utrecht University in 1990 and completed his Ph.D. thesis in 1994. After this, he moved to the Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, for his hospital pharmacist training. Since 1997 he has been leading a research group focussing on the clinical pharmacology of antimicrobial agents with emphasis on HIV, TB, fungal infections, and Hepatitis. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the www.hiv-druginteractions.org and www.hep-druginteractions.org websites. He is an Executive Editor of BJCP and serves on the editorial boards of TDM, JAIDS, JAC, Antiviral Therapy. Since April 2011 he has been appointed as a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is (co-) author of more than 450 publications in this field and has supervised 27 completed Ph.D. theses. The topics of his interest are drug-drug interactions, pediatric pharmacology, therapeutic drug monitoring, and operational research in resource-limited countries.
Andrea Calcagno
He is temporary Assistant Professor at the University of Torino (Department of Medical Sciences, Infectious Diseases); he has obtained the National Qualification for Associate (2017) and Full (2018) Professor in Infectious Diseases. He is Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the University of Torino, Torino, Italy). He obtained the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand). He is member of the Panel of the Italian Guidelines on the Use of Antiretrovirals and Management of patients living with HIV and of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Cohort of HIV-positive patients (ICONA), of the Italian Cohort of HIV-positive Geriatric Patients (GEPPO) and of the Italian Registry of Non-tubercular Mycobacteria (IRENE). He is Associate Editor of “BMC Infectious Diseases, “Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine” and “PlosOne” Journals. Since 2016 he is member of the Governing Council of the Italian Society of Infectious Diseases (SIMIT). He has experience as a Consulting Physician in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (Sudan, Thailand, Burundi); several phase II, III and IV studies in antiretroviral treatment trials. In 2014 he helped setting a collaboration with the Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda with the aim of improving key features of HIV Research (pharmacogenetics and co-morbidities). His main field of interest is the clinical pharmacology and pharmacogenetics of anti-infective agents (antiretrovirals, antibiotics, antifungals) and the central nervous system complication of HIV-infection.
Ezequiel Cordova
Ezequiel Córdova MD, is an infectious diseases and clinical pharmacology specialist at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He works as an infectious diseases specialist at the Infectious Diseases Unit of Hospital Cosme Argerich and as HIV clinical investigator in Fundación IDEAA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is Assistance Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also associate editor for Actualizaciones en SIDA e Infectologia Journal (ASEI). He is member of the HIV and STI Comission of the Sociedad Argentina de Infectologia. Furthermore, he is the Coordinator of the “Pharmacology of Antiretroviral Drugs” chapter in the Argentinian Guidelines on antiretroviral treatment. His main research interests are TB/HIV coinfection, clinical pharmacology of antiretroviral treatment, drug-drug interactions and, antimicrobial resistance.
Claudia Cortés
Claudia Cortés is a specialist in infectious diseases and internal medicine. Since 2005, have been dedicated to HIV/AIDS in both patient care and research. She has a position as Associate Professor at the University of Chile with academic activities involving undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students. Dr. Cortes has worked at Fundación Arriarán, Chile's first and largest HIV treatment center, for more than 16 years, where she has clinical duties in the care of PLWH. She has served on the Chilean Infectious Diseases Society's HIV advisory group as a member and chair (SOCHINF). She is the former vice president of SOCHINF. She works as an acting consultant for the Chilean Ministry of Health, where she has contributed to the establishment and revision of national clinical guidelines for HIV/AIDS care, as well as participation in several committees focused on HIV prevention, testing, and treatment initiatives. She is currently a member of the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 national guidelines advisory council.
Adrián Curran
Adrián Curran graduated in Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He obtained his specialty in Internal Medicine in 2005 at the Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, where he works in the HIV Unit. In 2012 he obtained his Ph.D. Cum Laude with a thesis about body composition alterations secondary to ART. His main areas of interests within HIV-infection are long-term side effects of ART, the pharmacokinetics of ART and drug-drug interactions, sexually transmitted diseases including HPV infection and HIV-Tuberculosis co-infection. He is the author of book chapters on antiretroviral treatment side effects, has published in national and international journals, has collaborated in peer reviewing of international medical journals and has participated in international clinical trials.
Gordana Dragovic
Gordana Dragovic Lukic is a MD, Ph.D., specialist in clinical pharmacology. She obtained her MD in 1997 and completed her specialisation in clinical pharmacology in 2003, both at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade. In 2000 she has joined the HIV/AIDS Center of the Infective diseases clinic, University teaching hospital in Belgrade, Serbia. Dr. Gordana obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2008 at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade. Since 2015, she is appointed as Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Currently, she is a Head of the Pharmacokinetic Unit of the antiretroviral drugs at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade. The research activity of Gordana Dragovic Lukic has focused mainly on the clinical pharmacology of antiretroviral drugs, population pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics of antiretrovirals and drug-drug interactions.
Arkaitz Imaz
Arkaitz Imaz was graduated in Medicine from the Medical School of the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) in 2002. He completed his fellowship in Internal Medicine at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona, Spain) in 2008 and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2012 in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Since 2010 he works in the Infectious Diseases Department of the Bellvitge University Hospital, a large referral hospital covering the southern metropolitan area of Barcelona and specifically in the HIV and STI Unit. He is also involved in clinical trials and investigations in the field of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy. His main areas of interest are: antiretroviral resistance and salvage therapy, antiretroviral combinations, and antiretroviral drugs penetration and activity in reservoirs/tissue compartments.
Saye Khoo
Professor Saye Khoo, MD, Ph.D., is an Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and Professor in the Institute of Translational Medicine at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on the pharmacology of HIV treatment failure and how therapy may be improved through individualized care through understanding of why drug exposure varies markedly between individuals (and the role of individual characteristics such as weight, gender, host genetics, and drug interactions), and identify vulnerable groups who are at particular risk of failure, or toxicity. These studies span bench science, through translational research and into the clinic, and onwards to population-based modeling approaches.
Catia Marzolini
Catia Marzolini obtained a degree in Pharmacy followed by a Ph.D. in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of pharmacogenetics of drug transporters within the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. Catia Marzolini is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology at the University Hospital of Basel. Her research focuses on pharmacological determinants of antiretroviral drug response with a particular interest for the simulation of antiretroviral drug pharmacokinetics and drug-drug interactions in special populations as well as prescribing issues in elderly individuals living with HIV. Catia Marzolini is also a member of the Liverpool HIV drug-drug interactions website where she leads the content development of the website. She currently serves on the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) guidelines committee where she leads the drug-drug interaction section and is a member of the scientific board of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study.
José Moltó
José Moltó is a clinical physician in the HIV Clinic of the Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol in Badalona, Spain. He obtained his MD from the University of Alicante in 1996 and completed his internal medicine training in the Hospital General Universitario de Elche (Alicante). Since his very early medicine studies, Dr. Moltó was interested in infectious diseases, particularly in HIV infection. He joined the HIV Clinic of the Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol in 2002, and he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2008. He is committed with HIV research with a special interest in the clinical pharmacology of antiretroviral treatment, including population pharmacokinetics and drug-drug interactions.
Nadia Naous
Nadia Naous is the lead pharmacist for HIV and GUM at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the Chair of the UK HIV Pharmacy Association. She graduated from Nottingham School of Pharmacy in 2005, worked as a community pharmacist for two years before undertaking residency at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. In 2010 she moved to Imperial College NHS Trust to become a specialist, then Lead HIV Pharmacist before returning to Chelsea and Westminster in 2019. Here she leads the HIV and GUM pharmacy service across seven clinics in inner and outer London, Hertfordshire and Essex. Nadia has been qualified and an independent non-medial prescriber since 2012. She has a special interest in the pharmacology of antiretrovirals and drug-drug interactions and has contributed to national guidance for both the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) and the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and works closely with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in the development of specialist curricula, credentialing of consultant pharmacists and development of national training programmes.
Jesús Troya
Dr. Jesús Troya is a clinical physician in the HIV Clinic of the Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor in Madrid, Spain. He obtained his MD from the University Autónoma of Madrid in 2000 and completed his internal medicine training in the Hospital Virgen de la Salud (Toledo) in 2006. Since his internal medicine training, Dr. Troya was interested in HIV and viral hepatitis infections. He joined the HIV Clinic of the Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor in 2008, and he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2018. He is committed to HIV research with a special interest in drug-drug interactions, alternative antiretroviral strategies, and opportunistic infections.
Montse Tuset
Montse Tuset obtained a degree in Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona in 1988. She completed her Ph.D. titled “Interactions of antiretroviral drugs: from theory to clinical practice. A retrospective study of a cohort of 2140 patients seen in the Ambulatory Pharmacy Unit of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona” at the University of Barcelona, Spain, in 2006. She has been working as a Clinical Pharmacist at the Hospital Clinic Barcelona since 1993. She is author and Editor of the Spanish Antiretroviral drug-drug interactions website www.interaccionesvih.com. She is a teacher collaborator of the Master of AIDS of the University of Barcelona since 1996. Montse has been a member of the panel of AIDS Study Group (GeSIDA) of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology and the National AIDS Plan guidelines committee for the consensus document on antiretroviral therapy in adults infected by the human immunodeficiency virus until 2022. She has published over 30 articles and 45 book chapters in the field of HIV, mainly drug-drug interactions. The topics of her interest are drug-drug interactions, HIV and Internal Medicine.