Wendy Newport, MBA, MPH

    LPS Administrator

Wendy Newport is the Site Administrator for the Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section Local Performance Site and Co-Director Partner of the TX/OK AETC.  She received her Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Health simultaneously from the University of Oklahoma in 2000 and has been the Administrator for the Infectious Diseases Section since 1998.  Mrs. Newport is on the Board of Directors and is an officer of the AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families.  She has served as a Co-Chair and as a member of the Oklahoma HIV Treatment and Care Consortium and has assisted with the Statewide Coordinated Statement of Need for Oklahoma.  She also works closely with the Association of American Indian Physicians on HIV educational opportunities for providers of Native American clinical care.

Kimberly Walker

     LPS Coordinator

Ms. Walker fills the dual role of the LPS Coordinator for the TX/OK AETC at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and also serves as an Account I for the Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease Section. Ms. Walker graduated from Richland Community College in Decatur, IL with an Associate of Arts. She is currently continuing her education at the University of Oklahoma, majoring in zoology with a career focus in medicine. She is a member of Phi Theta Kappa and former member of the National Technical Honors Society. She is very active in her community and is a leader in her church youth ministry. Ms. Walker has a background in medical billing and has worked in the field for six years.

Linda Salinas, MD

   Medical Education Director

Dr. Linda J. Salinas serves at the Medical Education Director for the TX/OK AETC.  Dr. Salinas received her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1995 from the American University of the Caribbean after which she completed her Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases training at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She joined the Infectious Diseases section in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and serves as the Principle Investigator for the Oklahoma local performance site (LPS). Dr. Salinas' clinical interests include caring for those living with HIV/AIDS and tick-borne illnesses.

Karen Kinney, MD

Faculty

Dr. Kinney is a clinical presenter for the Texas/Oklahoma AETC.  Dr. Kinney joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Infectious Diseases Section in 2008 after being in private practice in Des Moines, Iowa for 8 years. She completed her medical school, internal medicine residency, and infectious disease fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, in Oklahoma City.  Both in private practice and in the Infectious Disease Section her clinical interests have included the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C, general infectious diseases, and prosthetic device infections. Dr. Kinney is also interested in antimicrobial stewardship and S. aureus infections. She is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.