Dr Esteban Martínez is a Senior Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (Spain) and Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Barcelona. He is professionally devoted to HIV clinical care and research. He has worked in different educational projects with community-based organisations over many years in Spain: Projecte dels Noms-Hispanosida, Gais Positius, and Grupo de Trabajo de Tratamientos sobre VIH. He currently holds the positions of past president of the Spanish AIDS Study Group (GESIDA) and vice-president of European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS). He is a member of the Scientific Board of the International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Co-morbidities in HIV. He has been a founding member of the International Symposium on Psychiatry and HIV. He has been co-author of the Spanish Guidelines on Antiretroviral Therapy, Metabolic, Kidney, Bone, and Neuropsychiatric Complications in HIV-Infected patients (GESIDA); and the Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Non-Infectious Co-Morbidities in HIV (EACS). He has served as an external advisor and reviewer to Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (Government of Spain), Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida (France), UK Medical Research Council, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Germany), South African Medical Research Council, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brazil), University of New South Wales, University of Dublin, and University of Brighton. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: AIDS, AIDS Research and Therapy, Clinical Infectious Diseases, HIV Medicine, Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, and Journal of Infectious Diseases. His fields of interests span antiretroviral therapy strategies, toxicity of antiretrovirals, non-infectious complications, co-morbidities, and aging in HIV-positive adults.
