CLINICAL HIV AND AIDS JOURNAL (ISSN:2633-5476)

Biography:

Dr. Pere Domingo is currently acting as the Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at Hospitals University Arnau de Vilanova & Santa Maria at Lleida, Spain. He is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Lleida. He was graduated with honours in the University of Barcelona in 1980 and achieved his Ph.D. degree in the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1993 (Magna cum laude). He has been devoted to infectious diseases and HIV infection since 1989. His also had held the position of Senior Consultant and HIV/AIDS Program Director at the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul, in Barcelona, from 1998 to 2015. He has been Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medicine School (Autonomous University of Barcelona) from 1994 to 2016. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 scientific papers and more than 100 book chapters. Dr. Domingo is an expert member of the Spanish Medicines Agency and of the European Medicines Agency. His main research interests are antiretroviral therapy and its complications, especially fat redistribution syndromes, metabolic alterations, insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk, and early senescence, but also meningococcal disease and bacterial meningitis in adults. Dr. Domingo is the past President of the Spanish AIDS study group (2011-2013), of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology. He currently coordinates evaluation of research projects in the area of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology for the Spanish National Evaluation Agency.

Research Interests:

• Bacterial meningitis
• Meningococcal disease
• HIV infection