South Dallas Health Center

Dr. Sinclair is a Graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has practiced Infectious Disease Medicine and HIV Primary Care since finishing his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Case Western in July of 2000. He was a faculty member at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas between 2000 and 2010 and achieved the rank of Associate Professor. In 2006, he took a year-long sabbatical to work at Merck and Co., Inc., where he was part of the team that prepared the New Drug Application which led to FDA approval of Isentress in 2007. He has served as the Director of Medical Education for the Texas Oklahoma AIDS Education and Training Center. He has been involved in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and participated in training events in Oshakati, Namibia, and in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. He currently practices HIV Medicine at Prism Health NTX in the southern sector of Dallas, Texas, and he holds privileges in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. His clinical focus has always been expanding access to new treatment modalities in underserved communities, particularly for people with stigmatizing illnesses such as HIV, Hepatitis C, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Tuberculosis.

Dr. R. D. Hardy attended UT Southwestern Medical School and then completed a combined internal medicine/pediatric residency at UT Health Science Center at Houston. He then returned to Dallas for a combined adult and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center after which he joined the faculty and saw patients at Parkland Hospital, Children’s Medical Center, and Amelia Court HIV Clinic. During his time at UT Southwestern, he participated in establishing an adolescent/young adult HIV clinic between these institutions. Next, Doug joined an infectious diseases private practice and managed adult and pediatric patients at Medical City Dallas Hospital as well as Baylor Plano. He now joins us in an effort to spearhead an adolescent/young adult HIV program at Prism Health North Texas.

Dr. Rachel Rivera graduated from UT Health Science Center San Antonio School of Medicine in 2007. She completed her Residency at UT Southwestern in Dallas 2007-2010 and participated in the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UT Health Science Center San Antonio 2010-2012. Dr. Rivera is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Charmeka Lipscomb, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC currently works as a mental health provider for Prism Health North Texas. She obtained her BSN degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. After a few years of floor nursing, she thought she wanted to take on management so she obtained a dual master’s in business administration and healthcare administration from Texas Women’s University. While working as an associate unit manager for Parkland’s HIV outpatient services, Charmeka found her first true passion and it wasn’t management; it was HIV. This passion prompted her to return to Texas Women’s University to obtain a Master’s of Science degree to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. Her first job upon completing nurse practitioner school was with Metrocare Services. It was there that Charmeka discovered her second love, mental health, which prompted her to get her post-masters certification in mental health from the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. She received her doctorate from Chatham University. Prior to PHNTX, Charmeka was the lead HIV provider for Parkland’s HIV jail services for over 5 years. HIV and Mental Health are passions of Charmeka’s because they are two of the most stigmatized disease processes in the black community. Until they’re openly discussed, the numbers will continue to grow and people will continue to suffer in silence. So let’s talk about it!

Kentoria Roberson-White is a family nurse practitioner at Prism Health North Texas’s South Dallas Health Center. Kentoria graduated with a BSN from Texas Tech and received her master’s in nursing from the University of Texas at Houston, and she has been practicing since 2020. She holds nursing licenses in California, New York, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and of course, Texas. She is the founder of Phoenix Health Alliance, a nonprofit organization whose mission is “to empower adolescents with comprehensive reproductive health education and resources.” When she’s not working, she enjoys shopping, international travel, and trying new foods. She lives in the Dallas area with her husband and their young daughter, Phoenix.

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