Sexual
Health Medicine
About the editors
Darren Russell is Senior Lecturer in Sexual Health at The University of Melbourne, and a sexual health physician. He practises at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and at Prahran Market Clinic in Melbourne. He is also the National President of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations. His medical interests include HIV/AIDS, herpes virus infections, men’s health, and the teaching of sexual health.
David Bradford is a sexual health physician whose first experience of the management of sexually transmitted infections occurred while working as a regimental medical officer in the Australian Army in South Vietnam in 1967-68. After training in surgery in the United Kingdom, he returned to sexual health medicine in the late 1970s. He became Director of the Melbourne Communicable Diseases Centre in 1981, was a founder fellow of the Australasian College of Sexual Health Physicians in 1988, and President of that College from 2000 to 2003. In 1993 he moved to Cairns to head the Sexual Health Service there, and recently retired from that position. David wrote the seminal Australian book, VD in Australia in the early 1980s, and has interests in HIV medicine, gay men’s health, and the sexual health of Indigenous Australians.
Christopher
Fairley is Professor of Sexual Health at The University of
Melbourne, and Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, of the Faculty
of Public Health Medicine, and of the Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine,
and holds a PhD in epidemiology. He is the editor of the journal Sexual
Health, and a board member of the International Union Against Sexually
Transmitted Diseases.