Dr. Reaves, III, is a Palliative Medicine physician with US Acute Care Solutions at Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Maryland. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in 1998. Dr. Reaves, III graduated from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at MedStar Washington Hospital Center from 1998-2001 and served as Chief Resident, Internal Medicine 2001-2002. After almost a decade of practicing in a private practice and hospital medicine, he pursued a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at National Institutes of Health and Capital Hospice, now Capital Caring, completing it in 2011.

Dr. Reaves, III is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is active in the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, where he has served on the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and is the founder the Black Professionals, Patients and Families forum. He has done post-graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, earning a certificate in Theology and Ministry in 2016, and is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Religions of the World at Harvard Extension School and will begin a Master of Bioethics program this fall at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics.

His clinical interests include the ethics and culture of advance care planning and end-of-life decision making as well as the intersectionality of faith/spirituality and medicine, particularly in African-American community. Dr. Reaves, III is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated and a member of the senior choir at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.