Our Team
Shakira Cabrera, MPAS, PA-C
@lipsdontlieshakira
Shakira graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2006 with a dual Masters of Physician Assistant Studies and Bachelor’s in Health Care Science. She worked mostly inpatient Medicine in Cardiology, Neurology, and as a Hospitalist. In 2012, she was hired as a PA for the Trauma/Plastic Surgery department at Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston. As part of the Physician Assistant team there, she covered the Trauma bay, ICU, inpatient wards, Surgery clinic and scrubbed into surgeries as a First Assist. It was during her time in the operating room that her love for surgery and aesthetics began. Caring for the complicated trauma and reconstruction patients with a long road to recovery and helping them regain their life and confidence is what gave her joy.
In 2015, she left Brooke Army Medical Center and began her surgical first assist company. She worked with Plastic Surgeons in the community assisting them with cases in the operating room. Although she loved the operating room, she still longed for a way to have her own patients outside of surgery. In 2018, she dove into Aesthetics full force with the goal to grow her own practice and have those relationships again as she did with her reconstruction patients. She’s made it her priority over the past two years to train with the best worldwide to offer her San Antonio patients cutting-edge procedures and skills.
Erika Barry, NP-C, MSN
@injectorbunny
Erika is one of the top aesthetic injectors in the country. She serves as an international trainer for industry leaders such as Merz, Allergan, and Galderma, where she’s also recognized as an expert faculty. In addition to her role as esteemed trainer for all three companies, Erika runs her own private training company, Aesthetic University. Throughout her career, she’s trained top doctors, NPs, and PAs, both within the U.S. and abroad.
Erika went south to Florida to attend the University of Miami for her undergraduate career. After spending some time navigating the question of what to study, a beloved aunt and nurse practitioner helped Erika decide on trying her hand at a nursing degree.
Erika declared her major in nursing, obtaining her BSN and accepting an offer to attend the prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland for her first master’s degree in family medicine. There, she trained under some of the country’s leading plastic surgeons. Following her time in Maryland, Erika moved across the country to attend graduate school at the University of California San Francisco. After graduation, she remained in San Francisco as a surgical nurse practitioner for four years in the plastic surgery department at UCSF. That’s when she discovered injecting.