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An active member of the AAFP since 1986, on the state level, he is a past-president of the Colorado
Academy of Family Physicians and has served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado AFP since
1990. He has also served on several statewide boards, including the Colorado Medical Services
Board, the board for the Colorado State Tobacco Education and Prevention Program and the
Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition, in which capacities he has been instrumental in
helping to pass and implement legislation defining the patient-centered medical home in Colorado
and improving access to care for the underserved.
On the national level, in 1988 Dr. Cain co-founded the Tar Wars tobacco-free education program.
Under his leadership, Tar Wars has grown to be one of the AAFP’s most respected outreach
programs, and has reached more than 8.5 million children in all 50 states and in 14 countries. Dr.
Cain’s work with Tar Wars has been recognized by the World Health Organization, which awarded
him a Special Recognition Medical for Tobacco Control in 1990, and by the AAFP, which awarded
him its Public Health Award in 1995. In 1996, following an accident and hospitalization, Dr. Cain
has been walking with bilateral below the knee prosthetic legs. As a member of the board of
directors of the Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) since 1996, Dr. Cain started the ACA’s
national prosthetic insurance fairness campaign, which has resulted in the passage of laws in twenty
states requiring insurance coverage for prosthetics as well as the introduction of federal legislation in
this area. In addition, Dr. Cain has also completed and taught nationally in adaptive sports and has
introduced a new adaptive ski device—the ski-bike—to North America
A member of the AAFP Board of Directors since 2008, on September 14, 2011, Dr. Cain was elected
by the AAFP Congress of Delegates to serve as President-Elect of the AAFP.
The Jeffrey J. Cain, M.D. Collection consists of documents and other materials relating to the history
and development of the Tar Wars tobacco-free education program since its co-founding by Dr. Cain
in 1988. Materials include organizational documents detailing the history of the program; lesson
plans; tool kits; and miscellaneous Tar Wars-related souvenirs and other memorabilia.
Carmichael, Lynn P., M.D. (1928-2009)
1959-1994
4 boxes – See also: Audio-Visual Collection; Oversized Collection; Photograph Collection; and
Slide Collection
Lynn P. Carmichael, M.D., was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1928, but raised in the small town of
Mooresville, Indiana. He discovered his calling early in life, finding inspiration from his family’s
physician, Dr. Kenneth Comer. After graduating from Indiana University, Carmichael attended the
University of Louisville Medical School, earning his M.D. in 1952, after which he accepted an army
internship at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. During the Korean War, Carmichael
served as a First Lieutenant and Regimental Surgeon in the Medical Company of the 17 th Infantry
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