Dr. Sweet is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. She is Director of Internal Medicine Education at Via Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Francis, as well as the director and principal investigator of the Kansas AIDS Education and Training Center. In addition, she is a past president and current member of the Advisory Board for the Sedgwick County Board of Health. Dr. Sweet is the immediate past Chair of the Board of Regents for The American College of Physicians (ACP), and continues in the organization through her participation on national committees and by working with the College's Eurasian Medical Education program. She has traveled to various parts of the Russian Far East over the past two years providing HIV education to physicians in order to further prevention and treatment efforts there.

Dr. Sweet has been recognized both locally and nationally for treatment and research on HIV/AIDS. She currently serves on the Center for Disease Control/ Health Resource Services Administration's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and is a member of the national board for the American Academy of HIV Medicine. In addition, she has served on the planning committee of the National AIDS Update Conference for AmFAR and recently co-chaired The National Ryan White Clinical Update Conference in Washington, D.C.

In 1995, Dr. Sweet was one of only 130 researchers and clinicians nation-wide invited to take part in the first White House Conference on HIV and AIDS. She also received the "Award of Courage" from the American Foundation for AIDS Research on World AIDS Day 1992 and was recognized on World AIDS Day 1993 by the Health Care Financing Administration with an "Administrators Citation" for her willingness to treat HIV infected individuals without regard to their ability to pay. She continues to lecture both locally and nationally to educate other health care providers regarding HIV.

Her role with the Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center takes her across the US delivering HIV prevention and treatment messages. As Clinical Director of the only Ryan White Title III Early Intervention and Treatment Grant in Kansas, she cares for over 850 Kansans with HIV/AIDS.