6A. HIV&AIDS Invited Speaker Session: Clinical management: The Path of Least Resistance
Tracks
Track 1
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Details
This session will begin with an introduction to antiretroviral (ARV) resistance presented by the current EACS president Professor Miłosz Parczewski. Dr Eloise Williams will follow with an update on transmitted resistance and diagnostics, including a discussion on the implications of PrEP. Finally, Professor Andrew Carr will describe how to predict a resistance pattern from past ART usage.
Speaker
Miłosz Parczewski
ARV Resistance Genotypes 101
11:00 AM - 11:25 AMBiography
Miłosz Parczewski has received the MD diploma at the Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland in 2002 and was granted a Ph.D diploma in molecular epidemiology of HIV in 2007 and a title of professor of medicine in 2016 based on the scientific publications on HIV resistance and transmission networks. Current President of European AIDS Clinical Society for the term 2025-2027. National Consultant for Infectious Diseases appointed in 2023. Since 2017 to 2024 President of the Polish Scientific AIDS Society, Council Member for the European Society on Antiviral Resistance, associate editor of BMJ STI and HIV Medicine journals.
Dr Eloise Williams
Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Transmitted drug resistance and the impact of PREP on acquisition of resistant virus
11:25 PM - 11:50 PMBiography
Dr Eloise Williams is a Clinical Microbiologist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Physician at Austin Health and PhD student at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne. Her research focus is in sexually transmitted infections, blood borne viruses and public health.
Prof Andrew Carr
Senior Staff Specialist, HIV and Immunology Unit
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
Estimating the Resistance genotype from a patients treatment history
11:50 AM - 12:15 PMBiography
Professor Andrew Carr is a clinical immunologist and immunopathologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He has authored almost 400 peer-reviewed publications, mostly on antiretroviral complications and comorbidities.
