Dr. Alice Thornton completed her medical degree at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She completed her residency at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Internal Medicine. She then completed her fellowship training with the Division of Infectious Diseases at Indiana University Purdue University, where she studied the pathogenesis of chancroid. She was recruited to assist in the development of an Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the University of Kentucky in 1998. Thornton has successfully acquired four grants funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – Ryan White Part B, C and D and the Local Performance Site grant of the Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center. She serves as Medical Director of the Blue Grass Care Clinic. She is Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Reprieve Study – Randomized Clinical Trial to Prevent Vascular Events in HIV. Thornton is a clinical site visitor for HRSA, and also serves as a grant reviewer for HRSA, NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She recently was elected to the HIV Medicine Association Board of Directors. She is a Professor of Medicine in the University of Kentucky Department of Internal Medicine and Chief of the UK Division of Infectious Diseases.