7A. HIV&AIDS Invited Speaker Session: Clinical management: ARV Guidelines Panel
Tracks
| Tuesday, September 15, 2026 |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Grand Ballroom 1&2 |
Details
The latest updates to the Australian ARV guidelines will be presented. This will be followed by case-based discussions with a panel of local and international experts to provide real- world commentary around on the implementation of the Australian ARV guidelines.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the latest updates to the Australian ARV guidelines.
- To apply these changes to current clinical practice.
- To hear both community and healthcare workforce perspectives on HIV management issues.
Speaker
Mr Daniel Cordner
Board Member
LPV
Panel Member
1:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Daniel Cordner (he/him) is a freelance graphic designer, artist, and activist. After many years of living in shame, he transformed his experience into advocacy by joining the Positive Speakers Bureau and completing the Positive Leadership Development Institute in 2017. He participated in the 2018 AIDS Life Cycle from San Francisco to LA and volunteered as a supervisor at AIDS 2018 in Amsterdam.
Daniel has been part of several global HIV events, like the U=U Summit in Montreal (2022), and the ACT NOW Migration Forum in Brisbane (2023). Daniel was the co-artistic curator and designer for HIV Science as Art in Brisbane (2023) and Munich (2024). The projects fundraising program successfully delivered 45 micro-grants to HIV networks through the Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central Asia regions. Daniel is the creative lead on HIV Unwrapped which has seen over 130 scientists and fashion designers participate and exhibitions take place in 10 cities globally.
Daniel has over 20 years of lived experience and a decade of national and international work in the HIV sector. He is also a current board member for Living Positive Victoria.
Mrs Shauna Hall
Nurse Practitioner -Sexual Health/HIV S100
Gold Coast Sexual Health Service
Panel Member
1:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
– Shauna Hall, Nurse Practitioner/ S100 HIV/Hep B
Studying and working in public health/ Sexual Health and HIV specialty for over 20 years. Passionate about the delivery of person- centred care for PLHIV.
Formal education: Master of Women’s health/Public health, Nurse practitioner, (UniMelb) Graduate Diploma addictive behaviours (Monash)
– current ACNP sponsorship – Primary care UniMelb.
Working 11 years with MSHC now currently employed at Gold Coast Sexual Health Service – NP.
Enjoying the sea change.
Dr Rupert Handy
I D Physician
Auckland City Hospital
Panel Member
1:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Rupert Handy is a New Zealand trained Infectious Disease Physician with a career long interest in HIV Medicine. He is a HIV clinician at Auckland City Hospital and is actively in involved in the wider HIV sector. Rupert is a director of ASHM.
Dr Ming Lee
Unit Director
Canberra Sexual Health Centre
Panel Member
1:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr Ming Lee is a Specialist in Sexual Health and HIV and the Director of the Canberra Sexual Health Centre, ACT, Australia. He also holds Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer appointments at Imperial College London, UK and the Australian National University School of Medicine and Psychology, Australia.
Associate Prof Raja Iskandar Shah Raja Azwa
Consultant In Infectious Diseases
University Of Malaya
Panel Member
1:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr. Iskandar Azwa is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and the Clinical Lead for the HIV service in the Infectious Diseases Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
A. Prof Janine Trevillyan
Head of Hiv Services And Deputy Director Of Department Of Infectious Diseases
Austin Health
Panel Member
1:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Assoc Professor Janine Trevillyan is the Head of Clinical Virology and HIV services and Deputy Director of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Austin Health, Melbourne. She is also a researcher within the University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity. She is an active member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). As an infectious diseases physician and clinical researcher her work focuses on understanding and preventing the long-term complications of HIV, particularly reducing cardiovascular risk and metabolic dysfunction.
Dr Belinda Wozencroft
GP S100
View Street Medical
Panel Member
1:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr Belinda Wozencroft is a General Practitioner with special interests in women’s health, sexual health and HIV medicine. Originally, Belinda trained as a Registered Nurse and worked in remote Aboriginal communities before studying Medicine at UWA. Belinda has completed further post-graduate studies, which include Diploma of Obstetrics, Graduate Certificate in Women’s Health, and Diploma of Child Health. Belinda is registered as an s100 prescriber for antiretroviral medications for people living with HIV. She is the Principal at View Street Medical in North Perth.
Belinda is active in the local and national medical communities including previously a member of the National HIV Standards, Training and Accreditation Committee and past Chair of the Western Australian Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Advisory Committee.
Dr Rick Varma
Head medical Services SHBBV SESLHD
Sydney Sexual Health Centre
Panel Facilitator
Biography
Rick is a Senior Staff Specialist and Sexual Health Physician, Acting Director at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre, the largest publicly funded sexual health service in NSW. He is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Kirby Institute, Sexual Health program and a member of the Australasian ASHM HIV guidelines committee and has an interest in early initiation of ART, Molecular epidemiology of HIV, workforce development in HIV care and HBV in CALD populations.
Session Chair
Rick Varma
Head medical Services SHBBV SESLHD
Sydney Sexual Health Centre