Sexually Transmitted Infections: Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment

'Dr. Jonathan Zenilman is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.'His career in STIs started at the Centers for Disease Control, where he was responsible for developing the national gonococcal isolate surveillance system.'His STI-related activities have included being the director of clinical services at the Baltimore City Health Department, and a translational research program in the epidemiology of goncoccal resistance, behavioral interventions, and HIV/STI interactions.'He is a former President of the American STD Association. 'Mohsen Shahmanesh was born in Teheran, Iran, completed his medical training in the UK and specialised in endocrinology with his MD thesis on the pituitary-hypothalamic control of gonadotrophin secretion.'Between 1975 and1981 he was associate professor of medicine and endocrinology at Shiraz University, Iran. Returning to England in 1983 he retrained in genitourinary medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital, and in 1988 became consultant in GU medicine and HIV in Birmingham General Hospital and the University of Birmingham, UK.'Among a number of senior posts in the speciality, he pursued his deep interest in teaching by becoming Chairman of the Specialist Advisory Committee for GU Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of London. Between 1996-2002 he edited the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections (changing its name from Genitourinary Medicine). He was a member of the Department of Health’s Expert Advisory Group on AIDS . In 2008 he was awarded life fellowship by the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV. He retired from clinical medicine in January 2010.'His research interest include non-gonococcal urethritis, the neurological complications of HIV and the effects of currently used antiviral treatment regimens for HIV on glucose, cortisol and lipid metabolism and adipocyte gene expression.