Head of the Infectious Diseases Unit and Research Director of HIV and Infectious Diseases
Hospital Universitario La Paz
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Dr. José R Arribas is currently the head of the Infectious Diseases Unit and Research Director of HIV and Infectious Diseases at La Paz Hospital, and associate professor of Medicine at the Autonoma University School of Medicine all in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Arribas received his medical degree from the Complutense University School of Medicine, Madrid. Following this, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine at La Paz Hospital before going on to pursue a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. During his fellowship, he performed clinical research at the Washington University AIDS Clinical Trials Unit.
His research interests, which include antiretroviral therapy, development of new antiretrovirals and emerging infectious diseases have driven the publication of more than 340 scientific papers many of them clinical trials or antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Arribas is a member of the GESIDA (Spanish Group for the study of AIDS) antiretroviral therapy expert guidelines and chair of the antiretroviral panel of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) guidelines. He is a member of the editorial committee of Antiviral Therapy, HIV Medicine, Open Forum in Infectious Diseases and Lancet HIV
