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Pune, March 2008
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An intensive 5-day advanced course
in HIV medicine
with interactive case discussions and hands-on clinical
cases
for 10 HIV-treating Indian doctors
17–21 March 2008, Pune, India
Co-chairs: Drs Sanjay Pujari and Sanjay Bhagani
A joint project by the Institute of Infectious
Diseases, Pune and the HIV Training and Resource Initiative (HIVTRI),
London with the generous support of Abbott.
training | programme | trainers | summary
 Sanjay
Bhagani, United Kingdom
Dr Bhagani is a Consultant Physician in Infectious
Diseases and HIV Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. He has a
special interest in HIV/hepatitis co-infections and runs a large
multidisciplinary HIV/ hepatitis co-infection service at the Royal
Free Hospital. He has been involved in a study of viral relationships
and risk-factors for the recent epidemic of acute HCV in HIV-positive
gay men in the UK.
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 Marta
Boffito, United Kingdom
Dr Boffito graduated from the University of Turin,
Turin, Italy in Medicine in 1996. She trained in general medicine
and infectious diseases at the University of Turin and at the University
of California at San Francisco, California, USA (with the Department
of HIV at the General Hospital) and became a specialist in Infectious
Diseases/HIV in 2001. Her HIV-related research was focused on antiretroviral
therapies and AIDS-related lymphoma. She obtained her PhD in 2004
at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (Department of Pharmacology
and Therapeutics, Prof. DJ Back) with a thesis entitled “Clinical
Pharmacology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Protease Inhibitors”
which covered the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antiretroviral
therapy for HIV. Currently, she is the Associate Director of the
Pharmacokinetic Research Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital,
London, where, in addition to her clinical duties, she is heavily
involved in numerous clinical studies.
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 Anna
Maria Geretti, United Kingdom
Dr Anna Maria Geretti is a Consultant Medical
Virologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital
in London, where she heads the Retrovirology laboratory and also
works as a physician with a specialist interest in HIV medicine,
viral hepatitis and genital herpes. She trained in Italy, the Netherlands
and the UK, and holds an MD in Medicine and a PhD in the virology
and immunology of HIV infection. She is an executive member of
the British HIV Association (BHIVA) Executive Committee and contributes
to the production of the BHIVA Treatment Guidelines. She is an
advisor to the British National Formulary and editor of the Journal
of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and the Journal of HIV Therapy.
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 Atul
K Patel, India
Dr Patel is a Consultant Physician in Infectious
Diseases and HIV Medicine at the Infectious Diseases Clinic, Vedanta
Institute of Medical Sciences and a Director of the department
of Infectious Diseases at Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad. He is also
a Visiting Assistant Professor in Medicine, Division of Infectious
Diseases at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. USA.
He has a special interest in HIV/TB co-infections and his group
has done good work on the effectiveness and durability of standard
dose efavirenz-based antiretroviral treatment along with rifampicin-based
anti-TB treatment in TB co-infected HIV patients. His group is
running an effective prevention programme for mother-to-child transmission
at the ID Clinic, Ahmedabad. In addition to these he has also done
an observational cohort on low dose Indinavir/ritonavir (400/100)
plus 2nRTI as second line therapy to NNRTI failure patients.
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 Sanjay
Pujari,
India
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 Mike
Youle, United Kingdom
After qualifying at Sheffield Medical School,
UK, Dr Mike Youle helped found the world-renowned Kobler Clinic
in London in 1986 as Clinical Trials Co-ordinator. Other than a
1-year stint working as a Consultant for the World Health Organization’s
Global Programme on AIDS and the National Programme on AIDS in
Kampala, Dr Youle has devoted most of his career to the clinical
care of HIV patients. Since 1996 he has been the Director of HIV
Clinical Research at London’s Royal Free Hospital as well
as an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health at its associated
medical school. His numerous professional activities currently
include a visiting professorship for Belgrade University and board/committee
memberships for organizations such as the International Association
of Physicians in AIDS Care, the British HIV Association and the
MANON Therapeutic Vaccine Programme. Dr Youle also serves as a
trustee of the Red Hot AIDS Charitable Trust and the National AIDS
Manual, as well as medical advisor to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
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