Agenda

Speakers

Alex Sparrowhawk, Director of Delivery and Impact, George House Trust. Alex has been working in HIV community organisations for over 11 years, with a background spanning service delivery, HIV prevention, ageing and strengthening strategic partnerships with professionals working in HIV and sexual health. Living with HIV for 17 years, Alex is passionate about meaningful involvement in HIV treatment and care and ensuring the voices of people living with HIV are heard, enabling them to thrive with HIV.

Speakers

Dr Julian Falutz is an Associate Professor of Medicine at McGill University. He attended McGill University School of Medicine and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. He is the Director of the Comprehensive HIV and Aging Initiative (CHAI) in the Chronic Viral Illness Service at the McGill University Health Center (MUHC) and senior attending physician in the Division of Geriatrics. He is a care provider for people living with HIV and a clinical researcher focussing on assessment and management of frailty, body composition and co-morbidities in older adults living with HIV. He is leading the development of a geriatric-surgical program at the MUHC providing care for frail elderly surgical patients. He was the co-principal investigator for the study of a novel growth hormone releasing factor analogue tesamorelin, approved for the treatment of HIV and therapy related abdominal obesity. He was an investigator and Canadian coordinator for the recently completed and published REPRIEVE Study (Randomized Trial to Prevent Vascular Events in HIV). He is a co-principal investigator for the Canadian Institutes of Health funded multi-center CHANGE-HIV Study investigating predictors of successful aging in older adults living with HIV.

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Dr Leila Frodsham is a Consultant Gynaecologist who leads the Psychosexual Service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (since 2013). She started to train in Psychosexual Medicine as an Obstetrics & Gynaecology SHO in 1998 and subsequently went on to Chair the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine (2010-14). She continues to work as a Seminar Leader training others in Psychosexual Medicine. She has held a general O and G consultant post before and during her current post but now focuses on Psychosexual Medicine, complex gynaecology (largely intractable pain conditions), menopause and tokophobia clinically. She is part of the Klinefelter’s and Endometriosis team at GSTT. She has worked at regional levels in improving childbirth experience for the Strategic Health Authority in Kent and was the Clinical Maternity lead for the South East Coastal Strategic Clinical Network for NHS England.

She has several roles in medical education: Foundation Training Programme Director, GSTT, Module co Lead for Women’s Health, Transition to F1 Module Lead and Senior Educational Supervisor for GSTT site at King’s College London. In 2020 she co founded The Doctors Menopause café on Facebook which has been acknowledged for excellence in Menopause Education by awards from the BMS and the RCOG. There are over 7.3 thousand female doctors on the page. Her research was in Mother To Embryo Viral Transmission Risk in Assisted Conception for which she won the ESHRE 2004 Promising Young Clinician award. She is widely published in sexual difficulties and has several podcasts on sexual pain and menopause.