Dr. Kavanaugh is a Navy physician who earned a B.A. in Physics in 1997 from Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA and obtained his M.D. from Loyola Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 2005.
He joined the Air Force in 1997 as a Space and Missile Operations Officer stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, WY.
He received a Navy scholarship and matriculated at Loyola Chicago. He performed a surgical internship at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth from 2005-2006. From 2007-2009, he was a flight surgeon with the Marine Corps (VMM-266) deploying to Al Asad, Iraq.
He returned to residency in Internal Medicine at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Post-residency, he completed the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) Tropical Medicine ASTMH certification level course.
He then completed a combined fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the Naval Hospital San Diego from July 2012-June 2015.
Next, he served as a staff physician at NMC Portsmouth from 2015-2019 with duties including Infectious Disease Department Head, Interim Chairman of Medicine and was an Assistant Program Director and Chairman of the Internal Medicine Education Committee. He then transferred and became the Military Tropical Medicine Course Director and was also an APD and Clinical Competency Committee Chairman at Walter Reed.
In deployed roles, he served as Director for Medical Services at the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit, Kandahar, Afghanistan. He also was the Officer in Charge of Rural Rapid Response Team 34 for COVID relief in 2020.
Currently, he serves as the NMC Portsmouth Internal Medicine Program Director and Associate Professor of Medicine at USUHS.
He is on the Board of Governors for American College of Physicians (Virginia chapter) and is the Fundamental of Critical Care Support-Resource-Limited Vice Chair and is an active FCCS course director.
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