Daniel Reynolds
Daniel L. Reynolds, D.O., DABFM graduated from Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine on the campus of Virginia Tech, Virginia in 2017. He sought further training at Monument Health Family Medicine Residency in Rapid City, South Dakota where he fell in love with rural Midwest medicine, particularly with emergency medicine. While in residency, he served as a clinical educator and preceptor for medical students at the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota. After completing his residency training in the middle of Covid-19 in 2020, Dr. Reynolds and his family moved to North Carolina to be closer to extended family where he works full time as an emergency room physician in a rural medium-volume ER in Cherokee, NC. He serves as the cerebral vascular accident/stroke program medical director and sits on various committees such as the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee and the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee. He also enjoys picking up extra hospitalist shifts on the inpatient unit. As a board-certified physician, he has extensive experience in both emergency and hospital medicine, giving a wide range of experience where he strives to provide high quality, evidence-based medicine for every patient he treats.
Dr. Reynolds grew up in Thailand, appreciating the expanded worldview that he feels contributes positively to his career as a doctor. His parents were both healthcare professionals who modeled immense dedication to improving the lives of their patient’s health and well-being, focusing on easily reversible lifestyle related diseases to improve one’s health. It is with this background that Dr. Reynolds is also passionate about lifestyle medicine, recognizing that one’s whole person health is often intertwined with simple choices in nutrition, sleep, fitness, and social relationships that can enhance physical and cognitive well-being. He enjoys the detective work of doing a deep dive into his patient’s history of present illness and finding the underlying cause of the disease. He loves educating on ways to improve quality of life for all ages and backgrounds and has given health education lectures around the world.
Outside of practicing medicine, Dr. Reynolds enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, Julie, and 4 sweet girls. Julie is a nurse by training but is currently a stay-at-home mom homeschooling the girls. Dr. Reynolds enjoys gardening, cooking Thai food, playing tennis, camping, white water kayaking, snow skiing, wilderness backpacking, snorkeling, playing strategy board games, and learning new musical instruments. He also enjoys alpine hiking and mountaineering and so far has climbed 12 of Colorado’s 14,000 ft mountains. He loves experiencing new cultures and has travelled the world visiting over 30 countries, several of which were visited while on mission trips to provide medical care to underserved people groups in developing countries. He has also been to 47 US states. Dr. Reynolds has worked at Keefe Memorial Hospital since 2022 and loves practicing rural medicine in a community where everyone is treated like family members—staff and patients alike. Dr. Reynolds feels most at home in small town tight-knit rural communities like Cheyenne County. He is excited to provide personable and friendly patient care in the Midwest again!