Why I decided to become... a sexual health consultant

Dr Andy Williams
Sexual health and HIV consultant Dr Andy Williams tells us how he found his NHS family and shares his advice for students interested in pursuing the specialty.
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I remember at that interview at Guy’s, they asked me who comes to GUM clinics and of course the answer is absolutely everybody – that’s why I still love it.

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Dr Andy Williams
Sexual health and HIV consultant

Dr Andy Williams is a sexual health and HIV consultant at Barts Health NHS Trust and is the site lead for sexual health at The Royal London Hospital. He is the training programme director for registrars training in genitourinary medicine in north central and east London and vice chair of the GUM specialist advisory committee for the Royal College of Physicians. His clinical work focuses on the sexual health of men and he runs multiple specialist services including HIV prevention clinics, male sexual wellbeing work jointly with clinical psychology, a dedicated clinic for men who have experienced historical sexual abuse, a complex male genitourinary problem service and a weekly general HIV clinic.