After qualifying at Sheffield Medical School, UK, Dr Mike Youle helped found the world-renowned Kobler Clinic in London in 1986 as Head of Clinical Trials. Other than a 1-year stint working as a Consultant for the World Health Organization’s Global Programme on AIDS and the National Programme on AIDS in Kampala, Dr Youle has devoted his entire career to the clinical care of HIV patients. Since 1996 he has been the Director of HIV Clinical Research at London’s Royal Free Hospital as well as an Honorary Senior Lecturer in General Medicine at its associated medical school.
His numerous professional activities currently include a visiting professorship for Belgrade University and board/committee memberships for organizations such as the British HIV Association and the MANON Therapeutic Vaccine Programme.
Dr Youle also serves as a trustee of the Red Hot AIDS Charitable Trust and the National AIDS Manual, as well as medical advisor to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. He has recently founded an educational not-for profit organisation, the HIV Training and Resource Initiative; www.hivtri.com.