Shamika Brooks has been practicing nursing for more than 10 years and has been a nurse practitioner since 2015 when she graduated with a Master of Science in Nursing from Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri. She currently works as a nurse practitioner at Parkland hospital providing primary care, urgent care, and specialty care to those living with HIV/AIDS. Her duties also include being a member of the inpatient infectious disease consult service at Parkland. Shamika is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner in the state of Texas and also certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine as an HIV specialist. In her spare time, she participates in speaking engagements throughout the state of Texas educating health care personnel and providing prevention education to those in the community. She enjoys mentoring and educating new graduate and student nurse practitioners in her current role as preceptor and graduate clinical faculty at University of Texas at Arlington nursing program. ... see more