Daryl Callahan

Dr. Callahan received his medical degree from the Kansas City University – College of Osteopathic Medicine. His postgraduate education was at Lakeside Hospital in Kansas City. He was in private rural practice for 10 years and maintained standing as clinical faculty at KCU in the family medicine department. During this tenure, he completed a two-year faculty research fellowship at KCU. Dr. Callahan served 30 years in the Army National Guard, achieving the rank of Colonel, and was appointed State Surgeon for Kansas and later as Special Assistant to Northern Command/NORAD in Colorado Springs for 3 years. He is a graduate of The United States Army War College. Dr. Callahan is actively involved in many military medical organizations, for which he was given the Order of Military Medical Merit. He served three tours in Iraq and deployed to state disaster responses, including New Orleans during Katrina and Rita Hurricane. Dr. Callahan left private practice after 9/11 and joined the Federal Civil Service as a primary care physician at Fort Riley in Kansas and later at the VA Medical Center in Topeka. His civil service culminated in the position of Service Chief for the Montana VA. After retiring from military service, he was a Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Director for several years. In 2020, he transitioned to work at home and enjoys practicing as a telemedicine physician for Knowledge Health. Since 2022, I have also served as an adjunct professor at the Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Callahan discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.