South Central AIDS Education and Training Center Program (SCAETC)

Mission Statement

SCAETC aims to improve the care of people in the region living with HIV/AIDS by supporting clinical consultation, education, and training’ especially for clinicians serving minorities and other disproportionately affected population.

Cultural Mission Statement

SCAETC is committed to establishing partnerships with communities affected by HIV/AIDS so that mutual goals of providing medically sound and culturally insightful care can be extended to individuals from diverse communities living with HIV/AIDS. 

Who We Are

The South Central AIDS Education & Training Center (SCAETC), is one of several regions of the National AIDS Education & Training Center (AETC) Program.  The SCAETC is comprised of 5 states: Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. The AETC Program is the professional training arm of the Ryan White HIV Extension Act of 2009.  As one of the largest and most comprehensive professional education programs dedicated to HIV/AIDS, the AETC Program was developed by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Public Health Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services to provide customized multidisciplinary training programs for healthcare providers in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands. 

The primary goal of the AETC is to improve the treatment, management, diagnosis, and counseling for individuals with HIV/AIDS. 

What We Do

The SCAETC provides HIV/AIDS care training for healthcare professionals within the 5state region (primarily physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, dental professionals, and pharmacists).  We provide a variety of learning opportunities which include: 

Educational Programs: Online didactic trainings, customized interactive trainings, workshops/conferences, and longitudinal trainings 

Clinical Preceptorships:  Clinic-based training for all Licensed Healthcare Professionals providing direct one-on-one clinical training with experienced HIV clinical faculty 

Clinical Consultations:  Provider driven requests for information regarding HIV/AIDS care that are answered by experts in various specialized fields. 

Technical Assistance:  Resolution of organizational or programmatic issues about HIV service delivery. 

Jill Coleman, MS

Jill Coleman holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a Master’s degree in Prevention Science from The University of Oklahoma. She worked as a special education teacher for 12 years before taking on the role of Program Manager at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center’s South Central AIDS Education & Training Center (SCAETC), where she has been for 14 years.  She helped develop and teach the adolescent STI & HIV prevention program in Oklahoma schools, while assisting the community at large with best practices in the application of the curriculum. As SCAETC Program Manager, Ms. Coleman runs several large-scale HIV educational projects that involve cultivating community partnerships, conducting needs assessments, and developing, implementing, and evaluating various types of instructional programs. 

Noah Cardenas, BA

Noah Cardenas holds a Bachelor's degree in Human Relations and is curently pursuing a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership from the University of Oklahoma. Noah worked with Human Resources projects for over 2.5 years before taking on the role as Program Coordinator at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center's South Central AIDS Education & Training Center (SCAETC). As SCAETC Program Coordinator, Mr. Cardenas coordinates the program's HIV preceptorships and local/national partner trainings. He assists in HIV educational projects, evaluation management and data maintenance.

Doug Drevets, MD, DTM&H, FIDSA

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.  Dr. Drevets joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma Dept. of Internal Medicine/Section of Infectious Diseases in 1998, and has been the Chief of the Infectious Diseases section since2008.  Dr. Drevets spends approximately 40% of his time in direct patient care and clinical teaching.  Venues for seeing patients include the Adult Tower of OUMC and the Infectious Diseases Institute of OUH.  He has been the site Medical Co-Director for the components of the SCAETC program housed at OUHSC for 10 years and is active in educating learners of all type about HIV/AIDS.

Radawn Williams, MBA, CPC

Radawn Williams is a Senior Administrative Manager with the Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). She graduated from Oklahoma City University with an MBA in 2010. She spent the majority of her 26-year career at OUHSC in the Office of Compliance and recently transitioned to Internal Medicine. Radawn is responsible for grant management duties associated with multiple Ryan White grants and she oversees the administrative duties of the Infectious Diseases Section.

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U1OHA29290 for the AIDS Education and Training Centers.