Dr Anton Pozniak

Dr Anton Pozniak studied medicine at the University of Bristol UK and qualified in 1979.  He started caring for patients with HIV in 1983 at the Middlesex Hospital, London UK.  He worked as a Consultant Physician in Zimbabwe where he researched for his doctorate in TB/HIV and moved back to the UK in 1991.  He ran the HIV research unit at King’s College, London before moving to his current position as Consultant Physician at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 1998.  He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996.

He has been made a life member of the British HIV Association and has helped write the British HIV Association (BHIVA) anti-viral HIV guidelines and chairs the TB/HIV Guidelines Committee.  He was an advisor on HIV and AIDS to the UK Government Health Select Committee and is on the Expert advisory group on AIDS for the UK Department of Health. He is an member of the European AIDS Clinical Society and is on the Governing Council of the IAS. He is Vice Chair of the European AIDS trial network NEAT. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board and executive committee of the Charity LEPRA.