Dr. Kavanaugh is a practicing family physician, Delaware native and DIMER program graduate.
She is a clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Her interests include simulated education, transitions in care and communication, as well as residency-driven quality and safety.
Dr. Kavanaugh completed the National Institute of Program Directors development fellowship through the Association of Family Medicine Resident Directors in 2013, and shortly thereafter was promoted to associate program director. She completed the Advanced Quality and Safety Improvement Science Program in 2014. As of April 2016, Dr. Kavanaugh is the residency program director for family medicine and co-program director for emergency medicine/family medicine.
Dr. Kavanaugh earned her undergraduate degree in biology at Pennsylvania State University in 2003. She completed her medical education at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 2007. She completed her family medicine residency at Christiana Care’s family medicine residency program in 2010, where she served as chief resident.
She is a past president of the Delaware Academy of Family Physicians.