Newsmaker: Stuart Fisk
Noteworthy: Selected to receive the Kerry Stoner Award from the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, honoring his longtime commitment to caring for patients with HIV and AIDS.
Age: 55
Neighborhood: North Point Breeze
Family: Daughter, Vera, 14
Education: West Virginia University, 1981, bachelor's degrees in anthropology and sociology; San Francisco State University, 1991, masters in nursing; University of Pittsburgh, certification as a nurse practitioner, 2007.
Occupation: Director of operations for the Center for Inclusion Health of Allegheny Health Network and a nurse practitioner with the Positive Health Clinic at Allegheny General Hospital.
Background: Fisk has been involved in HIV activism, research, nursing, and prevention since 1988, and has provided hospice, nursing and medical care for persons living with HIV disease since 1992.
Quote: “It's good particularly to be honored in memory of someone like Kerry Stoner because the history of the AIDS epidemic has largely been the response of people living with HIV. It was their response when no one else was really responding. People living with HIV took it on themselves.”
