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Teri Small - Interview with Shannon Kenitz, Executive Director of the International Hyperbaric Association

 

Shannon Kenitz is the Executive Director of the International Hyperbarics Association, a non-profit organization that promotes Hyperbaric Therapy through education and research. Mrs. Kenitz earned a BS degree in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. She has been involved in the Hyperbaric medical field for the past three and half years and was in charge of the last two International Hyperbaric Symposiums for Cerebral Palsy and the Brain Injured Child. Mrs. Kenitz has extensive experience in clinical settings serving as the Executive of Public Relations and then Administrator of Ocean Hyperbaric Neurological Center under Dr. Richard Neubauer, one of the largest free standing hyperbaric clinics in the world. For the past year, she has been working on legislation and with insurance companies on reimbursement for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for off label indications. Mrs. Kenitz is currently working with the Autism Research Institute (ARI), putting together a multi- center research study for Hyperbaric Therapy and Autism. Mrs. Kenitz is a sought after speaker, lecturing at conferences such as American College for the Advancement in Medicine, Anti Aging, and Autism conferences, Stroke Association Support Groups and much more.

Mrs. Kenitz knows first hand the struggles of having a child with a disability as her youngest daughter Grace was diagnosed with a rare Mitochondrial Disease that kept her in the hospital for the first three years of her life and now has been diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum. Hyperbaric Oxygen saved Gracie’s life which then led her mother to become an advocate for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, working nationally to change the laws regarding Hyperbaric Oxygen and Neurological conditions. Mrs. Kenitz resides in Madison, Wisconsin with her two daughters Lily and Grace.

Teri Small is the vice president of Medical Veritas International and commissioning editor of Medical Veritas®: The Journal of Medical Truth, the journal of MVI. MVI recognizes that medical modalities promoted by public health departments and authorities are often compromised by conflicts of interest; MVI encourages independent research into disease mechanisms. Teri is mom to 8 year old Ian, who is diagnosed with autism, but who has also been diagnosed with mercury toxicity and nodular lymphoid hyperplasia, which are consistent with damage attributed to vaccinations.