Mr. Steven Cain is a certified physician assistant (PA-C) serving as an advisor to the Connected Health Branch in DHA.  Connected Health falls within the Clinical Support Division of Medical Affairs.  Mr. Cain is a subject matter expert writing DHA Telehealth (TH) guidance, functional requirements development, telehealth competencies, consultation and enterprise TH planning for the DoD’s 9+ million healthcare beneficiaries.  

Prior to serving at DHA, Mr. Cain served as the Deputy Director of Virtual Health for the Army’s Regional Health Command, Europe with a focus on developing novel medical and surgical sub-specialty virtual health programs.  His efforts resulted in some of the first In-Home virtual health appointments by specialty care groups in the Military Health System.  Mr. Cain has authored and co-authored a number of articles on Telelhealth.  

Mr. Cain is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force PA Program (1992) through the University of Nebraska and later (2001) received his Masters of Physician Assistant Studies also from the University of Nebraska.  Mr. Cain has been a continuously practicing PA for 27 years in varied disciplines including family medicine, general surgery and urology and currently practices at Dover Air Force Base Readiness Clinic.