UC San Diego Health’s Owen Clinic. University of California. San Diego, USA
Scott Letendre, M.D., is Professor of Medicine in Residence in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine and, following his residency in internal medicine at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, he completed fellowships in Infectious Disease Medicine at Duke University and in Neurologic HIV Research at UCSD. At UCSD, Dr. Letendre performs translational, patient-oriented research of the central nervous system complications of chronic infections, including HIV, HCV, and CMV. As part of a multidisciplinary research team, he conducts treatment trials of neurocognitively impaired individuals and analyzes their response to therapy as well as studies of the pharmacokinetics of antiretrovirals, the effect of comorbidities, and biomarker correlates of disease. Dr. Letendre is also an investigator in the UCSD unit of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group.
He participates in several international research projects, including projects based in China, India, Zambia, and Romania. Dr
CASCAID, NHS Mental Heath Service. London, United Kingdom.
I am the Consultant Neuropsychiatrist for CASCAID, an NHS Mental Heath Service for people living with HIV in South-East London, based at the Maudsley Hospital. We support people living with HIV who experience feelings of shame, stigma, or discrimination relating to their HIV diagnosis, affecting their physical and mental health. We also provide expert assessment, liaison and support to people living with HIV-related acquired brain injury resulting in neuropsychiatric illness
Lluita contra les Infeccions Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital. Barcelona, Spain
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.
Infectious Diseases Unit of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital. Milan, Italy
She is currently working as senior physician at the Department of Infectious Diseases and responsible of the Neurovirology Research Unit at the Research Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases of San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy, and as contract Professor of Infectious Diseases at San Raffaele University.
Her research group is mainly involved in studies on HIV Infection of the Central Nervous System, Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy and other HIV-associated CNS complications.
She is a panel member of the Italian HIV Treatment Guidelines, of the EACS Co-morbidities and of the Opportunistic Infections Guidelines, and of the NIH/CDC/IDSA Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections.in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents.
ReShape/International HIV Partnerships. London, United Kingdom
Ben Collins, co-director of ReShape, has been a community organiser, networker, and convener for over 50 years. His key area of interest is movement building to prevent and respond to interconnected social and health issues, including social and structural inequity, HIV and related conditions, race, gender, stigma and discrimination, trauma, neurodivergence, and substance use.
