Dorcas Baker is a registered nurse of 47 years, and currently employed by the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Center for Infectious Disease and Nursing Innovations as the Regional Coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (MAETC). She has worked in the field of HIV for 30 years.
Dorcas was a research nurse for 14 years (1992 -2005), with JHU AIDS Clinical Trials Group. She coordinated the first CME approved “HIV Over Fifty” Conference at Johns Hopkins University in 2002, which became an Annual Conference starting in 2005. Dorcas coordinated the production of JHU’s “HIV and Older Adults” DVD in 2009 and a member of the National Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) Expert Aging Advisory Council. She also serves as faculty for the MAETC AIDS Certified Registered Nurse (ACRN) Review Course in which she teaches Special Populations.
Dorcas participated as an invited panelist for the White House Meeting on HIV and Aging, sponsored by the Office of National AIDS Policy in October 2010.
She is the Co-founder of Older Women Embracing Life (OWEL) and the co-founder and coordinator of the Maryland Coalition on HIV and Aging.
