Dr Gail Matthews

Speaker

Gail Matthews, MBChB, MRCP (UK), FRACP, is a senior lecturer and NHMRC fellow in the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program at the Kirby Institute, Sydney. She also holds a clinical academic appointment in HIV and Infectious Diseases at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Dr Matthews originally completed HIV specialist training in London before moving to Australia in 2002 to take up a position at the Kirby Centre, and obtained her PhD on Therapeutic Strategies in HIV-HBV coinfection in 2009. She has a specific interest in acute hepatitis C, antiviral resistance and HIV/viral hepatitis coinfection in resource limited settings, and oversees a number of national and international research projects in these areas.