Today we’d like to introduce you to Rocky Jedick.
Rocky, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I grew up in Cleveland Ohio and was raised by my father who was a firefighter in the city of Cleveland and my mother who was a graphic artist. I did all of my school in Ohio where I grew up. This includes a B.S. in Biochemistry at the Ohio State University, followed by a 5 year dual degree physician leadership program in which I received an MD and MBA with concentration in healthcare management. It was during the extra year in med school pursuing my MBA that I become very intrigued with entrepreneurship and the unique problem solving required operating a business. During med school, I also applied and was granted a scholarship that would require me to serve in the USAF following graduation.
During medical school, I completed an elective in flight medicine and spent a month at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle, which culminated in a flight in an F-15 fighter jet. We did dog fighting at 7 G’s over the Gulf – I was sold! It was after this experience I decided to serve as a flight surgeon in the USAF following medical school. I wanted to do something more interesting than regular clinical medicine and see the world. Flying in fighter jets seemed a perfect choice for me and my goals. After graduating medical school, I completed an internship at UC Davis in Northern California, completed all of my board exams, and received my medical license.
I then did 6 months of aviation and survival training in preparation for my career as a USAF flight surgeon. I served in South Korea for a year as a flight surgeon for a fighter squadron that flew A-10’s and after that 4 more years flying the F-16 weekly just outside the Dolomites in Northern Italy. It was during this time that I truly fell in love with the moutains and began split boarding, rock climbing and mountaineering as much as I could. During my active duty USAF career I accumulated several hundred hours of flight time including about 150 flights in the F-16 Fighting Falcon. I deployed to about 15 countries across SE Asia, Eastern & Western Europe and North Africa with various fighter squadrons flying in fighter jets and providing both medical support and aerospace physiology training. It was in 2013 while stationed in Italy that I began a blog about aviation medicine called Go Flight Medicine. Although I didn’t know it at the time, this would later become the foundation of a highly successful business.
I left active duty in 2015 and moved from Italy to Salt Lake City, Utah when I matched into the University of Utah’s Emergency Medicine residency program. During this residency, I continued to write for my blog, serve in the Air National Guard and USAF Reserve and also acquired a designation by the FAA to become an Aviation Medical Examiner (AME). I also became interested in Space Medicine and completed an internship at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. I continued my writing and published some medical journal articles with others thru the University of Utah.
In 2016, during my residency, I expanded the website that hosted my blog, Go Flight Medicine, into a new Flight Medicine Clinic located in Salt Lake City, Utah. It started off quite small but I began to slowly expand this business after graduating from residency in 2018 while working as an ER doctor as faculty for the University of Utah and some ER’s in Las Vegas, Nevada. I also continued to serve in the USAF reserves and started writing more after becoming a columnist for a national Emergency Medicine publication. In February 2020 thru April 2021, I deployed to three different locations in Texas to assistt with COVID response in overwhelmed hospital systems. Following COVID in 2023, I took out an SBA loan and purchased a small office building near the whale by 9th & 9th business district. I then moved my main Go Flight Medicine clinic into that space. In 2024, Go Flight Medicine expanded from my initial clinic and I opened 3 new clinic locations at the Provo Airport, St George & Denver, Colorado. We are now opening a 5th clinic at the Spanish Fork Airport in January 2026. I now own/operate 5 clinics, some with different partners and also gained a unique specialization helping pilots with mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and substance use disorders.
Unrelated to my ventures in aviation, in March 2025, I opened two new businesses with a partner – Peak Healthspan, which serves as Salt Lake City’s first Longevity Health Clinic and Peak Hydration Spa – a med spa that offers IV hydration and other IV medical treatments. These businesses are co-located in the same building I own that houses the original Go Flight Medicine clinic. Peak Healthspan attempts to partner with health conscious patients to help them live a better longer life through aggressive preventative medicine and health and performance optimization.
Lastly, in 2024 I became involved in the local filming of a movie that had a plot that focused on a surgeon.I was initially hired as medical consultant, but rewrote most of the script and therefore also received an IMDB writing credit. The movie is called Revelations and was released in 2025. We hope it will be released on Netflix this year. I am now working on my own screenplay, which I hope to finish by the end of this year!
URL’s for my businesses:
Go Flight Medicine: https://www.goflightmedicine.com
Peak Healthspan: https://www.peakhealthspan.com
Peak Hydration Spa: https://www.peakhydrationspa.com
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Running one small business let alone 3 completely different businesses has proven to be incredibly challenging! It is all about problem solving but truly is a 24/7/365 job. Working as an ER doctor, teaching medicine, writing and also serving as in the military at the same time adds further complexity and makes effective time management critical.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Go Flight Medicine?
I will focus on my aviation medicine business rather than the Longevity Health Clinic or the Med Spa here as each offered unique lessons to me.
I discussed much of this during a previous question, but I believe what sets apart Go Flight Medicine from other competitors is my unique approach to aviation medicine. During my time as a flight surgeon embedded in fighter squadrons in the USAF, I gained an appreciation for the unique needs my patients had as pilots and also was proud to offer an elite concierge level of service as I advocated and fought for my pilots to retain their medical certification when they became sick or injured.
We have also created an incredibly modern and efficient website and patient tracking software that is not typically seen by other flight medicine clinics or FAA aviation medical examiners.
Lastly, just create something you are passionate about and remain open minded. I unknowingly started my business as a blog because I was passionate in the topic and had no idea it would later evolve into the business that it has now become.
If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
I can identify 3 qualities that have provided me success:
1. Passion – a genuine interest and love for the industry and service provided.
2. Innovation – a willingness to think and apply novel processes & technologies
3. Hustle – never stopping regardless of the obstacle or challenge, continue to be better – every. single. day.
Pricing:
- Peak Healthspan does memberships
- Starts at about $300 per month.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.goflightmedicine.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goflightmed/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goflightmedicine
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rocky-jedick/
- Twitter: https://x.com/GoFlightMed
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCipEAGh9QAAx6snXNdfO_-A?themeRefresh=1
- Other: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13663800/
