Who We Are
The East Bay AIDS Education and Training Center (EB AETC) is part of a network of more than 130 AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Programs around the country. AETCs are part of the Ryan White Program, Part F. This network conducts targeted, multi-disciplinary training and capacity building programs for healthcare providers who treat persons living with HIV/AIDS. The AETCs serve all 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the six U.S.-affiliated Pacific Jurisdictions.
The mission of the AETCs is to improve the quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS by supporting and training their health care providers so they can provide high quality, accessible services. The AETC Program is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau, (administrator of the Ryan White CARE Act). East Bay AETC is a project housed at a non-profit organization in Oakland, CA - Cardea Services (formerly known as The Center for Health Training).
Target Audience
EB AETC offers education and training programs specifically designed to improve HIV/AIDS care, treatment and prevention services for these providers in California's Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties:
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Dentists
- Dental Hygienists
- Pharmacists
- All members of interdisciplinary care teams
Our Current Efforts Include:
- HIV prevention, treatment and management related trainings
- 2-day mini-residency placement for doctors and nurses wanting to specialize in HIV
- Quarterly forums for high volume HIV providers (doctors and nurses)
- Clinical consultations
- Capacity building for providers, CBOs, and Jails who want to start or expand their HIV programs
- Implementing HIV Testing, Social Network Testing, Opt-out Testing
- Capacity building for the Alameda County's Expanded Testing Initiative
For Jails & CBOs Working with Recently-Released HIV+ Patients
Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) Project:
The East Bay, UC Davis and UCSF San Francisco Area AIDS Education Training Centers (AETCs) have a joint, collaborative 5-year regional Jail HIV Strategy Project, targeting county jail and community-based health care providers serving incarcerated and recently-released HIV+ patients in the counties served by these three northern California areas including Alameda County. The focus of the project is on improving linkage to care, transitional care and the continuity of care for HIV+ patients who cycle through and between county jails, community clinic referral sites, and state prisons, with the jail at the center of the link between the community and prison.
We can offer:
- Training for providers (by experts in the field) around HIV care and management of the disease; HIV testing; streamlining care.
- Provide technical assistance and capacity building to assist with HIV+ inmates transition out of jail into care
- Serve as facilitator in bringing together jail providers, CBO, Clinics, etc interested in transitional care and the continuity of care for HIV+
Save the Date: May 9th, 2012 - Northern California HIV Care Conference Focusing On Improving Linkages And HIV In Jails. The conference planners are looking for partners from local CBOs, jails, health departments who want to join the planning committee. Please email Shailey at merchant at cardeaservices.org if you are interested.
Conference topics will include:
- HIV in our local jails - what's being done
- Improving linkages for inmates being released
- Coinfection
- What services do HIV+ individuals coming out to jail need in our communities
- Improving linkage between N. California jails, CBO and HIV care providers
East Bay AETC Welcomes Their New Medical Director - Dr. Sophy Wong
After 23 years at the helm of EBAETC, Dr. Kathleen Clanon has stepped down from her role as the medical director. We are very grateful and honored to have had her in leadership for so many years and will truly miss her - thank-you Dr. Clanon. Dr. Clanon will continue seeing patients in the Highland (ACMC) clinic and will also be working as the regional, Pacific AETC Clinical Director. Dr. Sophy Wong has replaced Dr. Clanon as the new Medical Director since July 1!
Dr. Wong is an HIV expert physician who sees patients at Asian Health Services. She is a great teacher and mentor, as the East Bay has already seen this past year when she was heading up the EBAETC training and technical assistance at Santa Rita Jail. Dr. Wong recently completed a multi-year project to improve testing and care of HIV in China and will be bringing that experience also to her EBAETC work. She will simultaneously serve as the Medical Director for the China Program in both San Francisco and Kunming, China, directing technical assistance on HIV testing and linkages to care and treatment to local, provincial, and national-level HIV programs in China. Among many other roles, Dr. Wong has served as HIV Hospitalist and Clinical Consultant for the East Bay AIDS Center; as Staff Physician and HIV Quality 
Indicators Team Leader for Asian Health Services; and as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF from September 2008 to present.
Sophy will work closely with Program Director Shailey Merchant Klinedinst, MPH to expand the efforts of the AETC. Shailey has over 10 years of experience in HIV direct service, conducting trainings and program management.
East Bay's High Volume Providers Meeting
This discussion group aims to provide a recurring series of trainings to a small, stable community of doctors serving Ryan White patients in the East Bay. Through group learning and by fostering peer exchange of current cases, these meetings aim to increase knowledge of current HIV treatments and guidelines, provide a forum for discussion of strategies for management of HIV and other co-infections, encourage system strengthening and development of a learning community. Our current providers who attend these events work at Highland Hospital and East Bay AIDS Center, as well as other smaller treatment clinics and include Kathleen Clanon, Steve O'Brien, Jeffery Burack, and Cynthia Carmichael.
The group meets 3-4 times a year to discuss pertinent topics and cases as chosen by the group over dinner, typically meeting from 6-8:30 pm on a weeknight. Some past topics include Low-level Viremia, PrEP, Social Network Testing, Medi-Cal Managed Care, Cardiovascular Risk Reduction, and Pain Medication Management. CME credits and dinner are both provided at these events.
Call for Faculty Trainers
Do you have expertise in HIV? We need faculty trainers for East Bay AETC! If you are a doctor, dentist, pharmacist, nurse, or social worker interested in doing HIV related trainings in the community for a stipend, please complete this survey and indicate your areas of expertise and general availability. We are especially looking for trainers on HIV 101, ARV management, Co morbidities, HCV, Youth, specialized trainings for dentists & pharmacists.
Complete the following survey:
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CYYVB2249
East Bay AETC Faculty will be invited to special skills-building trainings.
Resources
Pacific AETC
National Clinicians Consultation Center
Warmline - National HIV Telephone Consultation Service
1-800-933-3413
PEPline - National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline
1-888-HIV-4911
Perinatal HIV Hotline - National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service
1-888-448-8765
Onsite in-service training and clinical consultation on a variety of topics is always available!
Contact us to arrange for customized training or consultation at your clinic site.
Contact East Bay AETC Staff
Sophy Wong, MD - Medical Director
Shailey Merchant Klinedinst - Program Director
Emily Matthewson - Training Coordinator
East Bay AIDS Education Training Center
614 Grand Ave Suite 400, Oakland, CA 94510
510-835-3700
ebaetc at cardeaservices.org
www.eastbayaetc.org