HIV remains a global pandemic. Anti-retroviral therapy saves lives but has made treated HIV infection a long-term condition. Increasingly, cardio-metabolic manifestations are being recognised as survival rates improve. This session will use two “real life” cases to describe the impacts of HIV infection on bone and overview our current knowledge of diagnosis and management of bone disease amongst people living with HIV.
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    Professor Karen Walker-Bone
    Director, MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work & Professor and Honorary Consultant in Occupational Rheumatology, Southampton General Hospital

    Karen trained as an academic rheumatologist in Southampton. Between 2003-13, Karen became Clinical Academic Sub-Dean at the new Brighton & Sussex Medical School where she helped to develop and deliver the curriculum to the first ever cohorts of medical students. It was here that she started a rheumatology HIV service in 2004-5. In total, she has seen more than 1000 HIV-infected patients leading to research projects, grants, publications and case reports. Since 2013, she has become Professor of Occupational Rheumatology and Director of the MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work. She continues to see HIV patients in a combined clinic in Southampton.