BASHH

Medical training: Trained in medicine at Cambridge and London Universities. Graduated MB.BS (with distinction) in 1983. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London since 1997.

Specialist medical training: Trained in GU medicine at the Middlesex and Charing Cross Hospitals, London, 1987 - 1991. Recognised as an accredited specialist in GU medicine in 1992.

Current appointments: Consultant in GU medicine in the Heart of Birmingham teaching Primary Care Trust since 1991. Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Birmingham UNiversity Medical School. Clinical Director of GU Medicine & Sexual Health Services since 1994.

Other professional positions: President of the national specialist society, the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH), 2010 - present (previously Vice-President 2008-2010; General Secretary 2003-2008; Assistant Secretary 1997-2001, then Secretary 2001-2003 of its predecassor, the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases).

Chairman of the national speciality Clinical Effectiveness Group 1997-present. Responsible for producing the first comprehensive evidence-based STI management guidelines in the United Kingdom. The first 22 were published as a supplement in Sexually Transmitted Infections (1999;75:S1-S88). Guidelines updated and new ones produced regularly.

Regional Director of the European Branch of the International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI-Europe), 2005-present. Previously Chairman of the Scientific Board 2001-2005.

Led an international project 2002-2004 to produce STD management guidelines in former Soviet Union countries.

Editor-in-Chief, European STD Guidelines Project (IUSTI/WHO) 1998-present. Responsible for producing the first comprehensive pan-European evidence-based STD management guidelines. 17 guidelines were published as a supplement in the International Journal of STD & AIDS (2001;12:S3:1-102)

Publications: Author of over 40 original articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals.