Over 35years experience as a professional registered nurse and over 24 years as an Advanced Practice Adult Nurse Practitioner. Multiple practice areas including long-term care, Bone Marrow Transplant, Emergency Room nursing, clinical research, and outpatient primary and HIV care. Since 1987 my practice focus has been HIV care. Also over 20 years of formal teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate levels as well as a long-history of successful speaking on HIV related care issues to multidisciplinary audiences.