British Association for Sexual Health and HIV

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Dr Simon Barton is Clinical Director of the Directorate of Genitourinary and HIV Medicine at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine. He qualified from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1982, and after working in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Hammersmith and West London Hospitals, became Research Fellow at St. Mary’s Praed Street Clinic in 1984. In 1986, he moved to work for Professor Albert Singer as ICRF Research Fellow at the Royal Northern Hospital where he wrote his MD thesis on the local immunology of HPV and CIN. He then returned to genitourinary medicine, holding registrar and then senior registrar posts at St Stephen’s and Westminster Hospitals, before being appointed consultant in 1990. He sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of STD & AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections. He was a founding chair of the “MSSVD Special Interest Group on Genital Herpes” on which he remains a committee member. He is the representative of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on the RCP Specialist Advisory Committee for Genitourinary Medicine , of which he became secretary in 2002. He is the UK representative to the “Council of the European Academy of Dermatovenereology”. His major research interests are the immunology and treatment of genital herpes, the cost effectiveness of strategies for treating sexually transmitted infections, particularly in primary care and outreach settings, and the studies of the gynaecological aspects of HIV infection in women. He was elected Treasurer of the MSSVD in 1999.
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Jan Clarke qualified in Medicine from Leeds in 1981, and returned as consultant in the Department of Genitourinary Medicine in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in December 2001. She has spent ten years as a DGH Consultant to the Department of Genitourinary Medicine at Clayton Hospital, Wakefield.

A member of the AGUM national committee since 1996, she served as Assistant Secretary and Treasurer to AGUM, and acted as representative on various bodies including the Clinical Reference Group of NHS Direct and the Chlamydia Screening Steering Group in the Department of Health. She led working groups on developing basic service standards and co-authored other national documents for AGUM.

She has developed clinical interests in contact tracing methods for Chlamydia and examination protocols in child sexual abuse. She has been involved in developing mentoring networks for medical staff across the Northern and Yorkshire region. She is undergraduate educational lead for the Leeds unit and her management interests include developing service networks and clinical computing.
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Trained in medicine at Cambridge and London Universities, qualifying in 1983.

Training in GU Medicine was as a Registrar at James Pringle House (now the Mortimer Market Centre) in London, followed by Charing Cross Hospital in London.  Appointed as a consultant in GU medicine at the Whittall Street Clinic and University Hospital Birmingham in 1991.

Clinical Director of Sexual Health Services since 2000, including GU and HIV medicine, family planning, sexual health promotion, outreach projects for sex workers and men who have sex with men, and the national chlamydia screening programme. Honorary Assistant Secretary of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases (MSSVD) 1996-2000; led on the Spring Meetings held in Oxford, Athens, Llandudno and Baltimore.  Honorary Secretary of the MSSVD 2000-2003 then General Secretary of BASHH 2003-2008.

Chairman of the BASHH Clinical Effectiveness Group since 1997, responsible for overseeing the production and revision of national guidelines (currently 31). Founded the national “Masterclasses in HIV Management” course in 1994, running it annually before transferring it to the MSSVD (now BASHH) in 1998. Examiner for the Diploma of GU Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries of London since 1995, currently Deputy Convenor and chair of the OSCE sub-committee.

Member of the Department of Health’s Expert Advisory Group on AIDS since 2007.

Took up role as BASHH Vice-President and Trustee of BASHH in January 2008.

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Dr Janet Wilson is a Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine at The General Infirmary at Leeds. She gained her medical qualification at the University of Bristol in 1980 and then trained in General Medicine. She started training in Genitourinary Medicine in 1985. She was initially appointed as Consultant at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield and Barnsley District General Hospital, but moved to her present post in 1991. She has been on the Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) in Genitourinary Medicine, at the Royal College of Physicians, since 1997. She was Secretary from June 1999 -2001, and Chairman since June 2001.

As secretary she produced the new objective based curriculum for training in Genitourinary Medicine which was implemented in January 2003. She was on the Clinical Effectiveness Group from 1997 to 2001 which developed the UK national guidelines. She was a member of the MSSVD Education Sub-Committee 1995 –1998, and elected onto the MSSVD Council 1997– 2000. She was the local organiser of the last MSSVD Spring Meeting in Leeds in 2003. Her main research interest is the effect of bacterial vaginosis on female reproductive health.
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Rachel Challenor is an Associate Specialist in Genitourinary Medicine at Plymouth NHS Hospitals Trust. She has been working in GUM for 14 years, with a background in General Practice and Occupational Health. She has a wide range of clinical interests in GUM and HIV and recently has been responsible for the local development and incorporation of GUM satellite clinics within the community. During the past few years as funds have tended to demonstrate political origins, she has developed a needs driven interest in audit and currently has nine publications to her name.

Her professional activities have included Non Consultant Career Grade representation on MSSVD Council (2001-2003) and joint organisation of the MSSVD NCCG Annual Conference 2001/2002/2003. In addition to being the Staff and Associate Specialist Representative on the BASHH Board, she is presently Honorary Secretary, Finance Officer and Member of Executive Committee of the GUM NCCG Group, and a member of the organising committee for the 1st BASHH SAS Annual Conference in GUM and HIV (2004).
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Dr Katherine Coyne trained at Oxford University and St George’s Hospital Medical School, and graduated in 2000. She worked as an SHO in General Medicine at East Surrey and Crawley Hospitals. In 2004 she moved to Chelsea & Westminster Hospital to work on the HIV ward. She followed this with an SHO post in Genitourinary Medicine at the Victoria clinic, and obtained the MRCP in October 2004.

In April 2005 she started as a Specialist Registrar in Genitourinary Medicine and HIV at Chelsea & Westminster. Her special interests include risk reduction strategies in the face of the HIV epidemic, and education, contraception and sexual health in young people.
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Gary is clinical lead in HIV and GU Medicine at the North West London Hospitals (Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals), honorary senior lecturer at the Mortimer Market Centre London and clinical lead for the North West London Sexual Health and HIV Service Network.

He is a member of the BASHH HIV/Hepatitis special interest group, deputy chair of the BHIVA audit and standards committee and has written or co-written 8 national and 2 international guidelines on the management of HIV or hepatitis on behalf of BASHH, BHIVA, IUSTI/WHO (Europe) and others. His current research interests include the treatment of HIV and hepatitis and improving access to health care.

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Professor Jonathan Ross is Professor of Sexual Health and HIV in Birmingham. He qualified from Aberdeen University Medical School in 1986 and worked in general medicine and genitourinary medicine, being dually accredited in 1997. He has worked as a consultant physician in genitourinary medicine in Birmingham since 1997.

He is an associate editor of the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, a member of the editorial board for European Sexually Transmitted Diseases Guidelines, a member of the British HIV Association executive committee, secretary of the Infectious Diseases Specialty Question Group for MRCP examination, editor of Global Review of Sexually Transmitted Infections and board member of Global IUSTI.

Professor Ross is the author of UK and European Guidelines on Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. His research interests are pelvic infection and sexual health care service delivery. His publications include three book chapters, twenty-four review articles and fifty-six original papers.
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