Donna Elaine Sweet, MD

Dr. Donna Sweet is a native of Wichita, Kansas. She attended Wichita State University where she earned both her BS and MS degrees in biology. She obtained her MD degree from The University Of Kansas School Of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Kansas-Wichita and affiliated Hospitals in Wichita, Kansas and was board certified in internal medicine in 1982.

Currently, Dr. Sweet has multiple roles in medical education and patient care at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita where she is Professor of Internal Medicine. She is Director of Internal Medicine Education at Via Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Francis, as well as the director and principal investigator of the Kansas AIDS Education and Training Center. In addition, she is the immediate Past-President of the Advisory Board for the Sedgwick County Board of Health and is currently on the board. Dr. Sweet is currently a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine and has been recently named chair-elect designee for the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP).

Most recently, she was honored by Via Christi Regional Medical Center with the 2003 St. Luke Physician Recognition Award for "living out the core values of Via Christi - community, competence, service, human dignity and vision - and putting these values into her lifestyle on a consistent basis." Dr. Sweet was recognized in 2000 as one of the "Shocker Top 40" by Wichita State University, an honor given to 40 graduates of the last century and in 1996 she was awarded the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Hope Award.

Dr. Sweet is best known for medical treatment and research on HIV / AIDS where she has been recognized both locally and nationally. On December 6, 1995 she was one of only 130 researchers and clinicians nation-wide invited to take part in the first White House Conference on HIV and AIDS. She also received the "Award of Courage" from the American Foundation for AIDS Research on World AIDS Day 1992 and was recognized on World AIDS Day 1993 by the Health Care Financing Administration with an "Administrators Citation" for her willingness to treat HIV infected individuals without regard to their ability to pay for service. She continues to lecture both locally and nationally to educate other health care providers regarding HIV.