Mike Youle is a British doctor

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 specializing in HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

 treatment. Notably he introduced the concept of pre-exposure prophylaxis

Pre-exposure prophylaxis

Pre-exposure prophylaxis is any medical or public health procedure used before exposure to the disease causing agent, its purpose is to prevent, rather than treat or cure a disease. An example would be if a doctor gave a medication used to treat a disease to a healthy person who is not thought to...

 (PREP) to a wider audience at the XVI International AIDS Conference, 2006

XVI International AIDS Conference, 2006

The XVI International AIDS Conference was held in Toronto, Ontario, during the week of August 13-18 2006. This was the third time that Canada has hosted the International AIDS Conference, after Montreal in 1989 and Vancouver in 1996. The main venue for the conference was the Metro Toronto...

 in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Canada

Canada

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in 2006. This was followed up the expanding the concept in publication

Scientific Publications

Mike is principally noted for introducing the concept of mass pre exposure prophylaxis ( above). Other notable publications include studies in the health economics , as applied to HIV therapy. The studies in health economics and health outcomes has helped to provide evidence to budget holders to fund HIV treatment within the UK.

Career

Qualified at Sheffield Medical School UK ( 1984)

Consultant for the World Health Organization’s Global Programme on AIDS and the National Programme on AIDS in Kampala,[1990/1991]

Clinical Trials Co-ordinator, Kobler Centre, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital 1986

Director of HIV Clinical Research, Royal Free Hospital 1996

Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Royal Free & University College Medical School 1996

Visiting professorship for Belgrade University [2004]

Board /Committee memberships

International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care

British HIV Association

MANON Therapeutic Vaccine Programme

Trustee

Red Hot AIDS Charitable Trust

National AIDS Manual

Also medical advisor to Elton John AIDS Foundation

Principal Investigator

TILT study
ALCAR study
COLATE
VANGUARD

External links

• http://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/