Ms. Gearin was the first Staff person hired for a Mental Health Clinic in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1975. Ms. Gearin continues to see HIV+ individuals needing special assistance with Mental Health issues in BMS and has also conducted a group of HIV+ men for about 15 years. She has served as her VA's HIV Coordinator for about 12 years and has been a member of the HIV TAG for several years.