Kevin Scott Ferentz, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine
Research Assistant Professor
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Kevin Ferentz, MD is associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine
at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He also holds
a secondary appointment there as research assistant professor of epidemiology
and preventive medicine. Dr. Ferentz graduated magna cum laude from the State
University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, majoring in biology and theater. He
received his doctorate of medicine from SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine.
After a residency in family practice at the University of Maryland, Dr. Ferentz
completed a fellowship in faculty development with an emphasis in obstetrics.
For six years Dr. Ferentz was the director of student and employee health for
the University of Maryland at Baltimore, and the medical director of Family
Medicine Specialists, the faculty practice for the department. In 1993, he became
the department's residency director. .
Dr. Ferentz has authored more than two dozen articles and book chapters concerning
issues in family medicine. He also has received numerous teaching awards, including
the Exemplary Teaching Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians,
and was named one of the Best Family Physicians by Baltimore Magazine
in 1997, 2000, and 2002. The Ladies Home Journal also named him one of
the best family physicians in America in 2002. Dr Ferentz's academic interests
center primarily around smoking cessation, and the recognition and treatment
of depression in the primary care setting. He also has participated in a number
of clinical trials for antidepressant medications.
Dr. Ferentz is a past-president of the Maryland Academy of Family Physicians
and currently serves on the Commission on Education for the American Academy
of Family Physicians. For eight years he was the regular host of Sunday Rounds,
the largest medical call-in show on public radio, heard nationwide, and around
the world on the Armed Forces Radio Network and the Internet.
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