This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Moore Clinic and the beginning of the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service. The Moore Clinic had it’s origins in 1915 as a clinic for the treatment of syphilis. Over the ensuing years the Moore Clinic served people with a variety of chronic and hereditary disorders. In January 1984, Dr. Frank Polk and Dr. John G. Bartlett set aside one half day a week in the Clinic to take care of a small group of gay men with AIDS. This was at a time when the viral origin of AIDS was only hypothesized and there was little medical intervention except treatment of opportunistic infections. Since then, the Clinic expanded and became “HIV dedicated” in response to the growing epidemic in Baltimore and central Maryland. In the last year, the 150 providers in the AIDS Service cared for 3,200 patients and provided more than 20,000 ambulatory visits. The direction and development of the AIDS Service can be credited to several individuals, but Dr. John G. Bartlett and Dr. Richard E. Chaisson were the two instrumental leaders of the Service after the untimely death of Dr. Frank Polk in 1988. Dr. Joel E. Gallant has also been instrumental in his role as former medical director and now Associate Director of the AIDS Service, and has become recognized for his clinical expertise in the field. Current leadership of the Moore clinic includes Dr. William Ruby and Ms. Heather Campbell.

Over the years the AIDS Service developed programs that not only include ambulatory care in the Moore Clinic, but also several programs that provide regional care for HIV consumers in the surrounding counties of Baltimore, more distant counties on the Eastern Shore and Western Maryland, telemedicine linkages with the Maryland Division of Corrections and the Federal Prison system, access to clinical trials, inpatient services, and a dedicated outpatient pharmacy for the AIDS Service. The clinical care programs are supported by a number of specialty programs for women and psychiatric health, outreach, patient advocacy, and support programs for patients including two newsletters: Moore News Quarterly and Patient Advocate. The Hopkins HIV Report and a website are also important educational components of the Service.

The AIDS Service has experienced a number of firsts, including a collaborative program to establish longitudinal HIV care in the Baltimore City Health Department’s STD clinics in 1989, the AIDS-Hemophilia Program (and the only clinic with combined hemophilia and HIV specialty services in Maryland) in 1994, and a clinic for treatment of HIV/hepatitis C-coinfected patients in 1997, a dedicated treatment adherence program in 1997, and an anal dysplasia clinic in 1999.

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