Mark Nelson is a consultant physician at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. He trained at Jesus College, Cambridge and Westminster Hospital medical school from where he qualified in 1986. He was appointed Consultant Physician at this hospital in 1991 where he is presently the professor of HIV medicine at Imperial College Medical School where he is also the senior tutor. Since that time he has built a large HIV practice with a special interest in HIV in patient care, co-infection with hepatitis B and C and the clinical utility of new antiretroviral agents. He has published over 650 papers on HIV and hepatitis.
Professor Nelson has chaired the BHIVA guidelines committee for opportunistic infections and for hepatitis C. He is a member of the Guidelines Committee for Treatment, Malignancy and for HIV transmission. He was previously the chair of the BHIVA hepatitis special interest group and of the BHIVA science and education committee. He is a trustee of several charities associated with HIV . He has been awarded a visiting professorship at the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya and most recently the certificate of merit by the government of Vietnam.
