Professor Yvonne Gilleece
Professor Yvonne Gilleece trained in Dublin and London, and is Honorary Clinical Professor and Consultant in HIV Medicine & Sexual Health at Brighton & Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. She is a national and international leader on HIV and was elected Chair of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) in January 2023. Prior to this she was elected as a BHIVA trustee to serve on the Executive Committee (2016-2019, 2019–2022) and was also elected as Honorary Secretary (2019- 2022). Professor Gilleece specialises in HIV in Women and is immediate past Chair of the BHIVA Pregnancy Guidelines, Chair of WAVE, a subcommittee of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), and Founder and Chair of SWIFT, promoting research in women living with HIV. She leads the HIV Women’s Clinic Sunflower in Brighton. She also teaches at BSMS, on the BHIVA inpatients and Dip HIV courses and at EACS Summer School. She was Vice Chair of the BHIVA Guidelines Subcommittee (2017-2019), was a member of the BHIVA Hepatitis and Conference Subcommittees and has contributed as an author to additional BHIVA guidelines (Adult Treatment, 2015, SRH 2019, HIV-2 2005). She also specialises in HIV and Bone and HIV and Hepatitis Coinfection & Liver Dysfunction and regularly publishes research in all her subspecialty fields.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9960-5389
