Jill received her Bachelors in Education from The University of Oklahoma. She worked as a special education teacher for 12 years before taking on the role of Instructional Coordinator & Prevention Educator at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the SCAETC.

She has been in her current role for 9 years and received her Masters in Prevention Science from The University of Oklahoma in 2016. As instructional coordinator, Jill manages several large-scale educational projects. They involve cultivating community partnerships, group processes management, the administration and coordination of various instructional programs, conducting needs assessments, developing and implementing training events, and evaluating instructional efforts.

Jill is also responsible for curriculum development and instruction of prevention programs within Oklahoma schools and the community at large. Additionally, she creates and conducts distance learning and face-to-face trainings to a variety of community facilitators regarding best practices in the application of the OUHSC prevention curriculum.

Dr. Drevets is a physician scientist with expertise in neuro-infection/neuro-inflammation and in clinical infectious diseases including treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS. His current positions are a Regents’ Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases, and Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Dept. of Internal Medicine at the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). He also holds an appointment as a Staff Physician at the Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC).

Dr. Drevets received his M.D. from the University of Kansas School of Medicine (Kansas City, KS) where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and Hospitals (Indianapolis, IN) and his sub-specialty training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado HSC (Denver, CO). He is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Infectious Diseases.

In a typical academic year, Dr. Drevets spends approximately 40% of his time in direct patient care and clinical teaching. Inpatient venues include the Adult Tower of OUMI and the Oklahoma City VAMC. Ambulatory care of patients with HIV/AIDS is performed at the Infectious Diseases Institute of OUHSC. He has been the site Medical Director for the components of the AETC program housed at OUHSC for 10 years and is active in educating learners of all type about HIV/AIDS.

Dr. Drevets science background lies in the areas of monocyte biology, host defenses to infection with intracellular bacteria, and pathogenesis of central nervous system infections. He has a long-standing interest in pathogenesis of infections caused by Listeria monocytogenes, a neuroinvasive bacterial pathogen. Work in his laboratory is directed at finding novel means to limit brain inflammation during antibiotic treatment of L. monocytogenes infection in mice. He is the corresponding PI on an NIH-funded project in neurocysticercosis, a helminthic infection of the brain.

Along with collaborators, he is investigating monocyte mRNA transcripts as a novel diagnostic modality in patients with neurocysticercosis. The clinical site for this project is in the Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, India with laboratory components performed by collaborators in South India (Bengaluru and Vellore) as well as at OUHSC. He has also been involved as one of the Principal Investigators on a Hepatitis C elimination project in the Cherokee Nation in northeastern Oklahoma funded by the Gilead Foundation.

Dr. Michelle Lewis is a Clinical Associate Professor with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with both a Bachelor’s of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree.

Dr. Lewis completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington prior to returning to the University of Oklahoma to complete a specialty residency in Infectious Diseases with an emphasis in HIV care.

She worked in many different facets of pharmacy prior to her faculty appointment including retail, hospital, and psychiatric specialty. Dr. Lewis began her teaching career as an instructor at Oregon State University and joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy in 2007.

She spent 12 years with the College of Pharmacy prior to transitioning January 2020 to the College of Medicine in order to focus her efforts more clinically. Dr. Lewis is a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and is credentialed as an HIV Pharmacist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

For nine years, she also served as the Program Director for a PGY-2 HIV Pharmacotherapy residency at the University of Oklahoma. She currently serves as a clinical pharmacist in the Infectious Diseases Institute on the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center campus and works as part of the AIDS Education and Training Center team at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine