Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health
Third Edition
Edited by Laura Mitchell, Bridie Howe, D. Ashley Price, Babiker Elawad, and K. Nathan Sankar
Author Information
Laura Mitchell, Consultant in Sexual Health, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK,Bridie Howe, Speciality Trainee in GU Medicine and HIV, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK,D. Ashley Price, Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK,Babiker Elawad, Consultant Physician in Genitourinary Medicine, Northumbria Healthcare Trust, and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK,K. Nathan Sankar, Retired Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine, formerly of NHS Newcastle and North Tyneside Community Health, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dr Mitchell completed her specialty training in GUM/HIV in the North of England in 2013 and currently works as a Consultant in Sexual Health in Plymouth. She has an MSc in Medical Anthropology and has recently spent some time working as a Consultant in the West of England Specialist Gender Identity Clinic. She is an active member of the BASHH Gender and Sexual Minorities Special Interest Group.
Dr Sankar qualified in 1977 from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. After obtaining the MRCP he completed higher specialist training in Genitourinary medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne and was appointed as consultant GUM physician in Cumbria in 1988, and in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1989. He retired in November 2017. He was also an honorary lecturer at the University of Newcastle between 1990 and 2013.
Dr Sankar has served as Northern deanery's training programme director for genitourinary medicine and organised undergraduate teaching in genitourinary medicine. His special interests include HIV, complex GUM and genital dermatology.
Dr Elawad received his primary medical qualification from the University of Khartoum (Sudan) and obtained the MRCPI (Ireland) and the MRCP (UK) after taking various training posts in general internal medicine in the UK. In the North East of England Dr Elawad gained training in general internal medicine and infectious diseases and then specialist training in GUM and HIV medicine. Dr Elawad is currently working as a Consultant in Sexual Health with Northumbria Healthcare Trust and an honorary consultant in infectious diseases with the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. Dr Elawad has regular clinics with the infectious diseases unit of the RVI which has a cohort of over 1000 people living with HIV. Dr Elawad trains and supervises a number of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals.
Dr Elawad has special interest in drug treatment of HIV, sexual health needs of people living with HIV and complex GUM.
Dr Howe studied medicine and obtained an intercalated honours degree in developmental biology at the University of Edinburgh, then moved to the North East of England for speciality training in genitourinary medicine and HIV. She has contributed to national guideline writing for the British HIV Association and started her first consultant post with NHS Highlands, based in Inverness, in Autumn 2018.
Dr Price is a consultant working at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne. He works in Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine and in this time has led the acute admissions unit in Newcastle. He was Director of Infection Prevention and Control in the trust for 6yrs.
He helps to look after a cohort of over 1000 patients living with HIV and is part of the ID on call team providing a regional service and advice regarding infectious diseases and HIV.
He has a regular hepatitis clinic and set up the first hepatitis outreach clinic to a drug rehabilitation centre in the North East.
He has a wide research interest and has published/presented on the basic science of hepatitis, various clinical aspects of blood borne viruses and the complications of HIV medication. More recently he has become lead in infection in the Newcastle's NIHR Medtech and In vitro diagnostics Co-operative and has been involved in the clinical development of in-vitro diagnostics including point of care tests.
Contributors:
Caroline Allsop
Ch1: The genitourinary medicine service, and Ch2: Ethical, medic-legal, and sociocultural issues
Sexual Health Advisor, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Pam Barnes
Ch23: Anogenital warts
Specialty Doctor in Sexual Health, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Stephen Bushby
Ch4: The standard clinic process and sexual health in primary care, and Ch5: Investigations and microscopy
Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine and HIV, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, UK
Babiker Elawad
Editor
Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Katherine Gilmore
Ch5: Investigations and microscopy, and Ch6: Specific genitourinary situations
Specialty Trainee in Community Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Bridie Howe
Editor
Speciality Trainee in GU Medicine and HIV, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals, UK
Jane Hussey
Ch12: Prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men, and Ch31: Vulval pain
Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine and HIV, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, UK
Diana Mansour
Ch34: Contraception including contraception for women living with HIV, and Ch35: Psychological aspects and sexual problems
Consultant in Community Gynaecology, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Laura Mitchell
Editor
Consultant in Sexual Health, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK
D. Ashley Price
Editor
Consultant in Infectious Diseases, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Jane Richards
Ch22: Anogenital herpes
Associate Specialist in Genitourinary Medicine and HIV, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
K. Nathan Sankar
Editor
Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (retired)
Kate Short
Ch29: Anogenital dermatoses, and Ch47: HIV: dermatological disorders
Consultant Dermatologist, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Joanna Speedie
Ch34: Contraception including contraception for women living with HIV, and Ch35: Psychological aspects and sexual problems
Locum Consultant in Community Sexual and Reproductive Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK
Daniel Weiand
Ch21: Urinary tract infection, and Ch32: Streptococcal and staphylococcal infections
Consultant Microbiologist & Educational Lead, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK