Esteban Martinez is Senior Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (Spain) and Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Barcelona. He is the current President of the Spanish AIDS Study Group (GESIDA) and Treasurer of European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS). He is member of the Scientific Board of the International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Co-morbidities in HIV. He has been a founding member of the International Symposium on Psychiatry and HIv. He has been co-author of the Spanish Guidelines on Antiretroviral Therapy, Metabolic, Kidney, Bone, and Neuropsychiatric Complications in HIV-Infected patients (GESIDA); and the Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Non-Infectious Co-Morbidities in HIV (EACS). He has served as an external advisor and reviewer to Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (Government of Spain), Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida (France), UK Medical Research Council, South African Medical Research Council, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brazil), University of New South Wales, and University of Dublin. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: AIDS, AIDS Research and Therapy, Clinical Infectious Diseases, HIV Medicine, Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, and Journal of Infectious Diseases. His fields of interests span antiretroviral therapy strategies, toxicity of antiretrovirals, and non-infectious complications and co-morbidities in HIV-positive adults.