125. The Flight Surgeon: Darin Kennedy, MD

<p><em>The CE experience for this </em><em>Podcast</em><em> is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: </em><a href= "https://earnc.me/E0LkOo">https://earnc.me/E0LkOo</a></p> <p>Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in Roanoke, Virginia with Carilion Health System, he served eight years as a United States Army physician, first as a flight surgeon for 1-10 Cavalry, 4^th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas for two years before working with basic trainees at Fort Benning, Georgia and training the next generation of army family physicians at the Martin Army Community Hospital Family Medicine Residency. He wrote his first novel in the sands of northern Iraq while deployed with 101^st Airborne Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom I from 2003-2004. After leaving the military in 2008, he joined the faculty at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Family Medicine Residency in Charlotte, NC where he has continued to train family medicine residents for the last 14 years in addition to taking care of his own patient panel. He embraces the generalist nature of family medicine, enjoying pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients alike, and relishes his role as the go-to person for minor surgical procedures in the office.</p> <p>His first published novel, <em>The Mussorgsky Riddle,</em> was born from a fusion of two of his lifelong loves: classical music and world mythology. <em>The Stravinsky Intrigue</em> continues those same themes, and his Fugue & Fable series culminates in <em>The Tchaikovsky Finale</em>. His The Pawn Stratagem contemporary fantasy series, <em>Pawn’s Gambit, Queen’s Peril</em>, and <em>King’s Crisis</em> combines contemporary fantasy, superheroics, and the ancient game of chess. His YA novel is <em>Carol</em>, a modern-day retelling of <em>A Christmas Carol</em> billed as <em>Scrooge</em> meets <em>Mean Girls</em>. His short