HIV & AIDS Clinical Care
Train The Trainer Programme For Doctors
March 2007 India

Professor Sharon Ruth Lewin, FRACP, PhD

Professor Lewin is Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit at the Alfred Hospital which is the largest infectious diseases unit within Australia and incorporates the Victorian HIV service. The Alfred Hospital Infectious Diseases Unit includes a 15 bed acute care ward which largely admits individuals with acute infectious diseases related problems and/or HIV infection, 15 bed sub-acute ward primarily for the care of individuals with HIV infection and a hospital wide referral unit seeing over 1,000 referrals per year. The service currently cares for 1200 HIV-infected patients, sees over 700 outpatients per month and employs over 90 staff. The Alfred Hospital is a busy 400 bed tertiary referral centre which includes a number of state based specialised services such as a large trauma centre, cystic fibrosis unit, heart-lung transplantation service, haemophiliac centre and a 35 bed intensive care unit. Professor Lewin also oversees clinical infectious diseases teaching to undergraduate medical students from Monash University (years 3, 4 and 5), the infectious diseases module of the Bachelor of Biomedical Science, Monash University and post graduate teaching for physician trainees and advanced trainees in Infectious Diseases.

Professor Suzanne Mary Crowe

Professor Suzanne Mary Crowe heads AIDS Pathogenesis and Clinical Research Program at Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health. She is also NHMRC Principal Research Fellow.

She has held prestigious positions at various clinical institutes in Australia. Dr Crowe has been lauded for her contribution by awards such as Life time Achievement Award, 5th International Conference on AIDS India, Inaugural Frank Fenner Award, Burnet Institute, Melbourne and many more. She is Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Professor Crowe is also the Deputy Chair of the Australia-India Council which was established by the Australian Government in 1992 to promote and strengthen people-to-people and institutional linkages between Australia and India.

She has played a major role in establishing the training program in HIV/AIDS clinical care training that the Council and the CII have been running successfully for the past four years. 30 training workshops on clinical care in HIV/ AIDS have so far been conducted, covering more than 2,500 medical practitioners and nurses in India.

Has been actively involved in public health activities across the world including professional services to WHO ASID, ASHM, AIC etc .

Prof. Anne Magaret Mijch

Prof. Anne Mijch is currently head of the Victorian HIV/AIDS Service, Alfred Hospital. She is an Infectious Diseases Physician with 20 years of experience in clinical care, clinical research and public health and epidemiology in the area of Infectious Diseases especially HIV/AIDS.

Anne also holds other position including Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine Monash University, Senior Infectious Disease Physician The Alfred and Visiting Specialist Melbourne Sexual Health Clinic and the Royal Women's Hospital. She was also the Director, AIDS Service, Fiarfield Hospital, Victoria from 1992 - 1996. In 1998 Anne was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to medicine. Ane is a member of several professional associations (including Australian Society of HIV Medicine, ASHM) and Government committees (including Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, ADEC). She has also received a number of research grants, is heavily involved in research in HIV/AIDS in association with the Australian National Centre HIV Epidemilogy and Clinical Research and has numerous scientific publications.

Professor Margaret Elena Hellard

Director, Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research, Macfarlane Burnet Research Institute for Medical Research and Public Health and Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.

She is member of Australian Society of Infectious Diseases.Australian Society of HIV Medicine (ASHM)Royal Australasian College of Physicians Public Health Association Australia. Professor Hellard is also active member of Research and working groups on infectious diseases.

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