The HSC South Central AETC Program (HSC-SCAETC) provides HIV trainings and support throughout North Texas. HSC-SCAETC is a local partner site of the South Central AETC (SCAETC) region, headed by The University of New Mexico's ECHO Institute.
HSC-SCAETC is one of the local performance sites under the SCAETC that spans five states: New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
The AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) is a national network of leading HIV experts who provide locally based, tailored education, clinical consultation, and technical assistance to healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations to integrate state-of-the-science comprehensive care for people with or affected by HIV.
Clinical Director, Principal Investigator
Dr. Allison is the Vice President of Health Policy in the Division of Research and Innovation and Executive Director of the Center for Health Policy at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC). Dr. Allison is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease and is elected to fellowship of both the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America. She is passionate about improving access to health care for disadvantaged populations, whether that disadvantage is geographical, racial, cultural, gender-based or economical. Dr Allison has successfully secured continuous federal funding for her work which includes directing the national Rural Telementoring Training Center and a project to integrate the National HIV Curriculum e-Learning Platform into Health Care Professions Programs.
Co-I/Program Director
Dr. Stacey Griner is an assistant professor in the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Her research focuses on sexually transmitted infection screening, prevention, and control. She uses implementation science and patient-centered approaches to translate public health research into clinical practice.
Curriculum and Education Faculty
Dr. Crystal Hodge went to The University of Texas at Austin to complete her PharmD followed by a PGY1 residency at Emory University Hospital and a PGY2 in Infectious Diseases at Emory University Hospital Midtown/ Emory University Hospital. She is now an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center System College of Pharmacy and practices as an Infectious Diseases Clinical Specialist Pharmacist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She is board certified in infectious diseases and pharmacotherapy. Her current practice interests include multi-drug resistant infections, infections in immunocompromised hosts, fungal infections, public health, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Her research is organized as Specific, Targeted, and Optimized Management of Pathogens using the research pillars of Outcomes, Utilization, and Therapeutics (STOMP OUT ID). Dr. Hodge’s life goal is to make her job obsolete indicating that humans won the war on infections thanks to key changes in patient care, practice patterns, and public messaging.
Evaluation and Curriculum Faculty | Email Amanda Brosnan
Brosnan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. She has worked as a Physician Assistant for the last 9 years in the areas of primary care, sleep medicine, and infectious diseases.
She currently works in pediatric health care with a focus on adolescent health. She is a Senior Atlantic Fellow, completing a fellowship in leadership and health equity with the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health in 2018.
She is a current Bloomberg Fellow in Adolescent Health with Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health where she is also completing a Master of Public Health.
She will be serving as an evaluation and curriculum lead faculty member for AETC at HSC.
Evaluation and Curriculum Faculty
Dr. Malinee Neelamegam is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Population and Community Health, School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Her research focusses on understanding and improving aging in communities that have historically faced health disparities. She has a special interest in cognitive aging and improving the well being of older adults living and aging with HIV.
Senior Program Manager | Email Eve Asuelime
Eve serves as the Senior Program Manager – Infectious Diseases for the Center for Health Policy in the Division of Research and Innovation at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Eve previously was the Manager of Clinical Operations at an Infectious Diseases/HIV Primary Care clinic where she managed a multi-disciplinary team who provides outpatient HIV primary care and support services for people living with HIV and other infectious diseases.
She prepared, managed, and administered Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) Ryan White Part A, B, D, State Services, and Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) grants. She also managed the DSHS HIV Routine Testing Screening grant.
Eve holds a Bachelor of Science in Life Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Management from Widener University. Eve is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.