Guida da Ponte, M.D., Ph.D., psychiatrist, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health – Centro Hospitalar Barreiro-Montijo, Portugal. One of the major fields of practice is with HIV patients with a psychiatric outpatient clinic dedicated to this condition. Author of scientific publications, mainly in the areas of neurocognitive disorders, depression, anxiety and psychopharmacology and antiretroviral interactions.

Jose A. Muñoz-Moreno is a clinician and researcher at the Lluita contra les Infeccions Foundation, located in the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). He earned the Ph.D. degree in Neurosciences in 2012 (Cum Laude), and currently he is also a collaborating professor with the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Muñoz-Moreno is involved in projects that address psychology and the human behaviour associated with HIV infection. In terms of study, he mostly investigates the neurocognitive features of HIV infection, the impact of HIV and antiretroviral treatments on quality of life and emotional status, and adherence to antiretroviral therapy.

Muñoz-Moreno’s recent work particularly focuses on assessment methods to detect HIV-related neurocognitive changes and the current profile of neurocognitive impairment in people living with HIV infection.

Ignacio Pérez-Valero MD PhD is a 43 years-old Consultant Physician of Internal Medicine at the Reina Sofía University Hospital. Córdoba, Spain.

Annemiek Schadé works as a psychiatrist since 1994 and since 2005 at the HIV Expert and Treatment Center on HIV and Mental Health and as a consultant at the University Hospital VU Medical Center in Amsterdam. She is a trainer and tutor for medical residents and interns psychiatry. The past years, she provided trainings and E-learning on HIV and Mental Health. She published a study book (in Dutch) and (research) articles on HIV and Mental Health, in English and Dutc

Milton Wainberg is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of Global Mental Health Research in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University. He is Director of the NIMH-funded Columbia University Global Mental Health Implementation Science T32-Post Doctoral Fellowship, NIMH/Fogarty International-funded Portuguese-speaking African countries Mental Health Implementation Research Training Program, Founding Chair of the Caucus of Global Mental Health and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association, and Medical Director of the Columbia University HIV Mental Health Training Project. Dr. Wainberg is the Chair of the Mental Health HIV Clinical Guidelines Committee of the New York State Department of Health/AIDS Institute, and has been Principal investigator or investigator of multiple NIMH, NIAAA, NIDA and CDC studies addressing the intersection of mental illness, substance use and abuse, HIV-associated fatigue, sexual compulsivity and HIV prevention and adherence to care, as well as the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness, HIV, race/ethnicity and being a sexual minority. Dr. Wainberg is the Principal Investigators of the NIMH-funded PRIDE sSA – Partnerships in Research to Implement and Disseminate Sustainable and Scalable Evidence-based Practices: sub-Saharan Africa which comprises a large scale up study delivering comprehensive efficacious and sustainable psychiatric care in three Provinces of Mozambique, and capacity building of a collaborative research network that will train service providers, investigators and policy-makers from Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia. His research to practice work aims to decrease the global mental health treatment and research gaps.