A Message From Your Friends At The Southeast AETC: Our hearts go out to those in our community who were affected by the hurricanes. If you have patients that are having trouble accessing HIV services during this time, we urge you to utilize HRSA’s Find a Ryan White Provider tool to help navigate them to services nearby.

Online Learning Curriculum: Medical Case Management

The purpose of this training is to improve providers’ health literacy and optimize client-centered communication through improved understanding of the unique structural barriers faced by people with HIV.

HIV, Disease Progression and Comorbid Conditions
  • HIV and Opportunistic Infections
  • Antiretroviral Therapy: Keys to Success
  • Antiretroviral Therapy Part 1: Focus on Treatment Guidelines and Regimens
  • Antiretroviral Therapy Part 2: Focus on Side Effects and Drug-Drug Interactions
Mental Health and Substance Use
  • An Introduction to Substance Use Disorders in People with HIV
  • Common Mental Health Disorders in People with HIV
  • Mental Health and HIV Treatment and Care Part I – Screening for Improved Health Outcomes
  • Mental Health & HIV Part 2: Ensuring Quality Behavioral Health Treatment and Care for Individuals with HIV
  • Mental Health & HIV Part 3: Stress, Trauma and Distress
Prevention and Health Maintenance
  • Nutritional Management for HIV
  • Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in HIV
  • Primary Care for People with HIV
HIV Care Continuum Topics
  • Linkage and Retention in Care: Creating a Culture of Engagement
  • Cultural Awareness Basics
  • Striving to do Better: A Clinician’s Approach to Caring for Transgender PWH
  • HIV & Homelessness: Risks & Survival Behaviors in an Ecology of Desperation
  • Barriers and Facilitators for Engaging Latinx in HIV services
Ryan White and Case Management Basics
  • Health Literacy and HIV Care – A Practical Guide for Medical Case Managers
  • Legal Services in the HIV Care Continuum
  • Motivational Interviewing Basics
  • Motivational Interviewing: Part 1
  • Motivational Interviewing: Part 2

Lynn Deitrick, RN, PhD
Clinical Educator

C. Ann Gakumo, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar

Debbie Cestaro-Seifer, MS, RN
Education and Training Specialist
North Florida AIDS Education and Training Center
University of Florida, College of Medicine

Marisa Echenique, PsyD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami

Nicole Ennis Whitehead, PhD and Vaughn E. Bryant, ScM
North Florida AIDS Education and Training Center
Southern HIV Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC)
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
College Public Health and Health Professions
University of Florida

Jennifer Janelle, MD
North Florida AIDS Education and Training Center
Gainesville, FL

Zoe Muller, MD
North Florida AIDS Education and Training Center
Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine
University of Florida, Gainesville

Joanne J. Orrick, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP
Clinical Pharmacist
North Florida AIDS Education and Training Center
University of Florida, College of Medicine

Anna K. Person, MD, FIDSA
Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Sonya O. Brown-Boyne, LMHC
Mental Health Counselor

South Florida AETC Faculty

Kara Schickowski, Esq.
Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Inc.

Jessica Castilho, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center