Donna Sweet is a professor of internal medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita.
She is a delegate to the American Medical Association and a member of the leadership for the American College of Physicians as a master and past president of its Board of Regents.
In 2015, Dr. Sweet was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wichita State University in recognition of her more than three decades of service to patients with AIDS/HIV, as well as her contributions to health care as a clinical educator.
She is certified as an HIV specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine, of which she is a past board chair. In addition to her long-time participation on the COLA board, a laboratory accreditation 501(C)3 entity, she is chair of the national HarborPath board, an organization that assists patients in accessing HIV, hepatitis and cancer treatment medication.
She is a newly elected member of the national HIVMA Board and is a long time member of the Health HIV Board. She has an HIV program in her clinic, supported by federal Ryan White funds, where she cares for approximately 1,300 patients with HIV.
She is also the principal investigator and director of the Kansas AIDS Education and Training Center as well as director of Kansas Care Through Housing, a “Housing for People With AIDS” grant-funded project.
Dr. Sweet has travelled extensively nationally and internationally educating physicians about HIV care and treatment. Prior to medical school, she completed a master’s degree in biology with emphasis on microbiology/immunology and worked in a hospital lab as a clinical microbiologist.
In 1994, she received the WSU Alumni Recognition Award. Golf and travel round out her life.