Peter Reiss | Professor of Internal Medicine Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam

‘A recognition for the many years that Joep Lange played a leading role’

  Peter Reiss is Professor of Internal Medicine at the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam. He is also, among his other activities, the Director of the HIV Monitoring Foundation and the regional representative for Europe and Central Asia of the International AIDS Society (IAS). Along with many Dutch organisations, including the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Health, Welfare and Sport, Dr. Reiss has been able to bring the biennial International AIDS conference to Amsterdam. AIDS2018 will take place in the Amsterdam RAI and will attract some 20,000 researchers, policy makers, activists and industry representatives. This 22nd edition has a special significance. It will give the organisers the opportunity to create a fitting tribute to friends and colleagues who tragically lost their lives on flight MH17 on their way to AIDS2014 in Australia. One of them was the Dutch AIDS researcher, Joep Lange. In addition, the Netherlands is a special location because all groups most affected by the epidemic can come to the Netherlands for the conference, including drug users and sex workers. This would not be possible in many other countries. Reiss: “The fact that AIDS2018 is coming to the Netherlands is recognition for the many years that Joep Lange played a leading role in scientific research in the field of HIV and global health from within the Netherlands and, in particular, in Amsterdam.”