Team V.I.P.

Suffering a near-fatal accident as a teenager, Cain was not content with the medical services he was provided for his chronic issues post accident. He began self educating himself in the possibilities of medicine, and facilitating relationships with experts across the globe.

After seeing so much success dealing with his own symptoms & the impact on countless others, he has now made it his mission to bring Regenerative Medicine into the mainstream. Working with corporations, politicians, physicians & other healthcare professionals to understand the true potential of what's possible in the following decades.

The Honorable David Shulkin, M.D. joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2015, first as Under Secretary for Health and then as the ninth Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the only one unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate. 

Prior to his government service, Dr. Shulkin worked in a number of health care administration roles, including as President and CEO of New York's Beth Israel Medical Center and President of Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. He is the Distinguished Health Policy Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, practices internal medicine in New York City, and still advocates on behalf of Veterans.

Dr. Shulkin joins Veterans In Pain as the staunch advocate he has always been, for responsible care of our Veterans’ health, and ensuring each receives the quality and range of treatment options they so rightly deserve. 

On a personal note, our partnership with Dr. Shulkin evolved from a personal introduction thru a VIP Physician, to that moment when we realized implementing responsible, and accessible, long-term chronic pain solutions for our country’s heroes, within the realm of OrthoBiologics, was possible. Not only possible, but mandatory, in order to address the plethora of service-born autoimmune chronic pain conditions plaguing our Veteran population, today. 

It is an honor to move forward with Dr. Shulkin due to like-minds and mission to unite our Veteran and OrthoBiologic communities, having created the first-ever independent national network of solution-oriented science focusing solely on the immediate needs of our Veterans in pain.

Lynn (Linda) Cintron, MD, MS, DABA, FASA, QME  is a board certified anesthesiology and pain management physician and was trained in research methodology. She completed medical school at the University of California, San Diego after graduate studies in physiology at UCLA. Dr. Cintron pursued anesthesia training at the University of Iowa, which was followed by an anesthesia/ pain management fellowship at Stanford University. She teaches at the University of California and Stanford Health Care and practices both pain and anesthesia in the San Francisco Bay area.  Previously, she was Director of the Pain Service at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, a teaching hospital for Stanford.She enjoys teaching, especially in ultrasound techniques. Through working in the operating room and pain clinic, she has seen patients develop chronic postsurgical pain and emphasizes early recognition by all clinicians. She is currently President of the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, a qualified medical evaluator for injured workers and a member  of various non profit organizations supporting research for veterans in pain, such as TOBI, IASP and the World Institute for Pain. Dr. Cintron has a heart for the military and understands how they suffer from chronic pain. Her uncle was a Navy Seal in WWII and survived the invasion in Normandy. Her father was in 11th Army Airborne and her husband was an Army officer.  

Dr. Carol Henricks is a practicing neurologist in Tucson, Arizona focusing on coordinating  the best traditional and alternative therapies to optimize patient outcome, specializing in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) as an adjunctive neurological therapy for my patients as part of a complex neurological recovery program - hyperbaric oxygen therapy and neurology.

TBI is a focus of Dr Henricks’s work with our military veterans and is the Medical Director of Healing Arizona Veterans. HBOT has proven highly effective as treatment for TBI, the misdiagnoses of PTSD that can lead to unnecessary medication, and the hard-won triumphs over TBI and PTSD. “It’s a tremendous honor to work with our servicemen and women, helping them recover and to improve their quality of life.”

Sergeant First Class Adams enlisted in the United States Army in July of 1986.

SFC Adams’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster), Purple Heart (Oak Leaf Cluster), Meritorious Service Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster) , Army Commendation Medal (Fifth Award), Army Achievement Medal (17th Award), the Good Conduct Medal (Seventh Award), National Defense Service Medal (Third Award), Iraqi Campaign Medal (Campaign Star), Afghanistan Campaign Medal (w/Arrowhead), Global War On Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War On Terrorism Service Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon (Second Award), Armed Forces Reserve Medal (M Device / 20 Year Device), the Joint Meritorious Unit Award. Staff Sergeant Adams also holds the Combat Action Badge, the Mechanic Driver’s Badge Track Vehicle, and the Mechanic Driver’s Badge Wheeled Vehicle.

Adams understands the enduring devastation associated with chronic pain as he was wounded in an IED accident in Iraq in 2007.  His injuries include: 47% Burned with 34% being Third Degree Thickness Burns, Right/ Left Shoulders Labrum Tears, Rotator Cuff Tears, Fraying Tendons, with Nerve Damage across shoulders into the C5 of neck. 8 Compound Back Fractures, C-1-C-5, S-1, T-11 and T-12, and 5 Bulging Disk and Spinal Cord Nerve Damage into the legs, as well as PTSD, hearing loss and more. 

Upon retiring in 2008, 

Adams continues his journey through healing, having endured over 18 surgeries, with the unwavering support of his wife, Suzy.  

After receiving stem cell therapy through V.I.P., his experience left him wanting to pay-forward his own experience, by joining our Board of Directors. 

Adams secures the invaluable position of ensuring any required travel arrangements for our Veterans, to and from treatment,  are coordinated at no cost whatsoever for the Veteran, as well as a companion. Adams’s ability to relate with our V.I.P.’s on various levels, while engaging for them, his vast network of Veteran-support alliances accumulated since retirement, is a cornerstone of our mission.