FSRH Hot Topic: Preventing and recognising syphilis and HIV in women | Half-day, online event

Dr Janet Barter (Member Trustee, Chair and President of FSRH)

Following undergraduate training in Sheffield, Janet switched to obstetrics and gynaecology from GP training after realising, from work in UK and West Africa, the crucial importance of women’s health.

Training in obstetrics and gynaecology included endocrinology, fertility, menopause, PMS, menstrual disorders, and medical gynaecology, as well as contraception and abortion.

She has expertise in sexual problems work and care of women who have been affected by FGM. During three London Consultant SRH posts Janet has developed clinical and teaching skills across the whole of SRH and was the Training Programme Director for CSRH in London and was previously Chair of FSRH’s Specialty Advisory Committee and Senior Vice President, Specialty.

Dr Janet Barter was confirmed as FSRH President in September 2022.

Dr Claire Dewsnap (President of BASHH)

Dr Claire Dewsnap is a Consultant Physician in Genitourinary Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

She began her experience in GUM in Bradford in 2001 and then commenced a training post at Chelsea and Westminster.

She was appointed as a consultant in 2007 in Sheffield and became clinical lead in 2009. She has led in a number of roles, including clinical lead across two departments and lead for quality improvement across Outpatient services. Claire has had a number of roles in education including Dip GUM examiner, Foundation TPD and lead for Blackboard roll out in Yorkshire and Humber foundation school. Research interests include management of bacterial STIs and online testing. Organisational areas of interest included change implementation, quality and service improvement and teaching and training. She has lead and been involved in numerous quality improvement and change implementation projects within the field both strategically and operationally.

Claire became BASHH conference and communication chair in 2018. Claire is the current BASHH President.

Professor Clare Nourse (Paediatric Infection Specialist, Children's Health Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia)

Clare Nourse is a Paediatric Infection Specialist at Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and Professor in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Queensland. She qualified in medicine from Trinity College Dublin and trained in Dublin, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Her particular interests are in HIV, TB and syphilis infection in children, tropical infection and infection in resource limited countries, particularly in Timor-Leste. She travels regularly to Timor Leste and is a founder and board director of Maluk Timor, a not-for-profit organisation in Dili, for which she chairs the Medical Advisory Committee. Her particular research interests are in the translation of epidemiology of infection in children to clinical practice.

Glenda Bonde (Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Terrence Higgins Trust)

Glenda is a former nurse –midwife who has worked within sexual and reproductive health roles in both the NHS as well as the Third Sector.

Glenda is the Director of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the HIV/Sexual Health charity Terrence Higgins Trust. She is also undertaking a PhD in Population Health Sciences at the Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural Science and Evaluation in Bristol Medical School looking at the drivers of HIV Testing inequities and inequalities in women of African heritage in the UK.

Angelina Namiba (Founder Member of the 4M Network of Mentor Mothers living with HIV)

Originally from Kenya, Angelina has over 26 years’ experience of working in the HIV sector on different initiatives ranging from providing one-to-one support to people living with HIV, treatment advocacy, managing service delivery to facilitating, promoting and advocating for the involvement of women living with HIV in forming and informing local and national strategy and policy. 

Living with HIV for 30 years, she is a founder member of the 4M Network of Mentor Mothers living with HIV.  A programme that works with Mentor Mothers living with HIV to train them to support their peers in their pregnancy journey, as well as for their own professional development.

Angelina also sits on various national and international advisory boards. These include as  a patron of the National HIV Nurses Association, a lay member of the Women’s Network of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a member of the Organizing Committee of the annual International Women and HIV Workshop, has been a Community representative for BHIVA, and is a Trustee of the National AIDS Trust, Salamander Trust and SAFE Kenya. She has co-authored various articles in peer-review journals and UNAIDS reports.

Dr Soonita Oomeer (Integrated Sexual Health Consultant, CNWL – Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Archway Centre Sexual Health)

Dr Soonita Oomeer completed GUM & HIV SpR training working at the Jefferiss Wing Centre in St Mary’s Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital.   

She worked as a GUM & HIV consultant at St Ann’s Sexual Health Clinic, Haringey and the Marlborough GUM clinic at the Royal Free Hospital.   

She works for Central North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) Sexual Health services as an integrated sexual health consultant at Archway Sexual Health Centre and Edgware Community Hospital Sexual Health Clinic and is clinical lead for CNWL Sexual Health services in Barnet.   

Her specialist interest is syphilis and she has created local referral and management pathways between ENT, ocular and antenatal services in North Central London to optimise care for neurosyphilis and antenatal patients.