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Editorial introductions Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS was launched in 2006. It In addition to his clinical practice, Dr Rockstroh is is one of a successful series of review journals whose involved in HIV research, focusing on antiretroviral unique format is designed to provide a systematic and therapy, including new drug classes, the course of HIV critical assessment of the literature as presented in the disease in hemophiliacs, HIV and hepatitis C coinfection, many primary journals. The fields of HIV and AIDS are and cytokines and apoptosis before and after antiretro- divided into 6 sections that are reviewed once a year. viral therapy. He has served as a study investigator in Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading multiple clinical trials of antiretrovirals and of treatments authority in the area, who identifies the most important for HIV and HCV coinfection. topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editor for this issue. An active member of the HIV/AIDS treatment com- munity, Dr Rockstroh has served as the chairman of the German Clinical AIDS Working Group (KAAD) Section Editor from 1998 to 2007. He chaired the organizing committee for the First and second International Workshop on HIV Ju ¨ rgen Rockstroh and Hepatitis Co-Infection 2004 and 2005 in Amsterdam, and was a member of the international organizing com- Dr Rockstroh earned a mittee for the First European Consensus Conference on doctor of medicine degree the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B and C in HIV from the Rheinische Frie- Co-Infected Patients again in 2005. In June 2007 Dr drich-Wilhelms University Rockstroh was elected as the new chair of the German of Bonn. He completed an AIDS Society. internship in the Depart- ment for Hypertension at In 2002, the German Society for Infectious Diseases the Ochsner Medical Clinic awarded Dr Rockstroh and his coauthors the prize in in New Orleans and resi- clinical infectious diseases for their study of the HIV- dency in the Department protective CC chemokine receptor 5-Delta32/Delta32 of Medicine at the Univer- genotype in hepatitis C antibody-positive patients. sity of Bonn. The same society awarded him and his co-authors the AIDS prize 2005. Ju ¨ rgen Rockstroh, MD, is a professor of medicine and the head of the HIV Outpatient Clinic at the University of Dr Rockstroh has authored, coauthored and collobarated Bonn in Germany, where his department treats the on over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals, along world’s largest cohort of HIV-infected hemophiliacs. with over 30 book chapters. Copyright © Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited.
Current Opinion in HIV and Aids – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: Nov 1, 2007
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