Internal Medicine Program Director
Navy Medicine Professsional Development Center
Portsmouth, VA
Dr. Kavanaugh is a 1997 Sigma Pi Sigma graduate from Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, earning a B.A. in Physics. He obtained his M.D. from Loyola Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 2005.
He initially joined the military in 1997 as an Air Force Space and Missile Operations Officer from 1997-1998.
Following medical school, he performed a surgical internship at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth from 2005-2006. He returned to training in Internal Medicine and achieved board certification in August 2012. He, then completed a combined fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the Naval Hospital San Diego from July 2012-June 2015 and achieved board certification in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Next, he served at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth from July 2015-June 2019 with duties including Infectious Disease Department Head and interim Chairman of Internal Medicine. He also served as an Internal Medicine Assistant Program Director and was Chairman of the Internal Medicine Education Committee. He then served as the Military Tropical Medicine Course Director and concurrently was an Internal Medicine Associate Program Director and chairman of the Clinical Competency Committee at Walter Reed.
For the Navy, he deployed to Iraq from September 2009- May 2010 and Kandahar, Afghanistan from April-October 2016. He also was also the Officer in Charge of Rural Rapid Response Team 34 for COVID relief from July-September 2020.
He currently serves as and Intenrsivist and Internal Medicine Program Director at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
He is a consultant for Fundamentals of Critical Care Support and also a fellow in the American College of Physicians and serves on the Board of Governors for the Navy and Virginia ACP chapters.
Thursday, January 19, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:45 PM PT
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Friday, January 20, 2023
7:30 AM – 4:15 PM PT
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Friday, January 20, 2023
7:45 AM – 11:45 AM PT
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Friday, January 20, 2023
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM PT
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Monday, January 23, 2023
2:45 PM – 4:45 PM PT
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