Rajul Patel

Raj Patel trained in Sheffield and London in HIV Medicine and Sexual Health. He took up his current post of Consultant in Sexual Health & HIV Medicine (Solent Sexual Health) and Senior Lecturer in Sexual Health & HIV Medicine (University of Southampton) in 1993. His major clinical and research interests are Genital Ulceration syndromes, Genital Herpes Infections, Molecular Diagnostics, Limiting and managing transmission risks of STIs, Evaluation of novel pathways for managing patients. He is Immediate Past Chair of the Clinical Standards Unit of BASHH, Senior Counsellor (Past President) IUSTI World, Specialty Advisor to the Royal College of Physicians London, and serves on the editorial committees of a number of specialist journals and the European STI Standards and Guidelines Group. He has been the chair of the Herpes Interest Group of the British Association (BASHH) for over 20 years.

As chair of the Clinical Standards Unit for BASHH he has overseen the production and updating of all the organisation’s standards in the last 3 years. These standards form the basis of service commissioning arrangements nationally. He has redesigned and restructured postgraduate Sexual Health Training in the UK and has developed 2 internationally acknowledged assessments for postgraduate STI specialisation (Dip GUM and Dip HIV). He has developed a clinical centre of excellence that has completed ground-breaking research into herpes genital infections and the control of viral STI. He is the author of 5 major guidelines and a college monograph on preventing neonatal complications of herpes. He serves on the advisory committee to the European CDC advising on multinational control programmes for STI. He manages a substantial portfolio of Undergraduate and Postgraduate education.