Daria Podlekareva

Daria Podlekareva, MD, PhD, Medical Doctor at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Daria Podlekareva  is now a consultant in infectious diseases at the University Hospital in Copenhagen. She is a dedicated researcher and since 2004 has been affiliated with the Copenhagen Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections (CHIP). Between 2016 – 2020 she was a vice-chair of the European Working Group on TB/HIV collaborative activities and she is currently coordinating the EACS Guidelines writing group on opportunistic infections.

Daria dedicated many years of her research to study HIV infection and tuberculosis in countries of Eastern Europe. She is a co-founder of a TB:HIV study, a large cohort study of more than 1500 coinfected persons from Eastern and Western Europe and Latin America. She was also a coordinator for the EuroSIDA study in Eastern Europe, a cohort of more than 23.000 HIV+ persons from all over Europe.