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Cade, Jerry, 1954-

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Dr. Jerry Cade is a Las Vegas, Nevada HIV/AIDS researcher, educator, and treatment specialist. Cade was born in Kermit, Texas on May 1, 1954 and grew up Methodist. He came out at nineteen years old, and had spent his life consolidating relgion and homoxexuality. He graduated from the University of Texas Southwest Medicine School in Dallas, Texas in 1980. In 1981, Cade moved to Las Vegas to work at the Community Health Centers of Southern Nevada. He co-founded and served as co-director of University Medical Center's HIV Inpatient Unit and HIV Outpatient Clinic in Las Vegas in 1986, and was the only Nevadan appointed to President Bill Clinton's thirty-member Advistory Council on HIV/AIDS. Cade also worked as faulty in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine.

Source:

Potters, Merilyn. "Dr. Jerry Cade's 'ties of respect, concern, love.'" Las Vegas Sun. March 11, 1996. Accessed May 06, 2020. https://lasvegassun.com/news/1996/mar/11/dr-jerry-cades-ties-of-respect-concern-love/

"Fast facts: Jerry Cade." Las Vegas Sun.. March 11, 1996. Accessed May 06, 2020.