Editorial Board Member

Giovanni Guaraldi, MD, is Associate Professor of Infectious disease at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. In 2002 he started a liver and kidney transplant program for HIV infected patients at the multi-organ transplant centre at Policlinico of Modena. He personally cares for approximately 80 HIV patients who received solid organ transplantation. Since the year 2000 he leads the Modena HIV Metabolic Clinic (MHMC). This referral centre offers a multidisciplinary team approach to HIV patients with metabolic abnormalities and offers a multidimensional evaluation of ageing HIV infected patients. More than 4500 patients are followed at this Centre. Prof. Guaraldi is a PI on numerous studies generated from the MHMC mainly focused on frailty and HIV associated co-morbidities. He has published over 260 peer reviewed papers. He serves as a reviewer for all major HIV journals He is also a supervisor of PhD students in the Experimental Medicine PhD course at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Prof. Guaraldi is a consultant for the European Medicines Agency and serves as a panel member of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) guidelines on prevention and management of HIV associated comorbidities.

HIV, immune-metabolism, NAFLF/MAFLD, lipodystrophy, aging, solid organ transplant, COVID-19