Kevin Scott Ferentz, MD
Kevin graduated magna cum laude from SUNY at Albany, where he majored in Biology and Theater. He received his M.D. from SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine. Kevin completed his Family Practice residency at the University of Maryland, along with a fellowship in Faculty Development with an emphasis in Obstetrics.
Since then, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Maryland where he has served as the Director of Student and Employee Health, and the Medical Director of Family Medicine Specialists, the faculty practice for the Department. Dr. Ferentz then served as the Residency Director for the Department from 1993–2005. In July, 2005, Dr. Ferentz assumed the role of Director of Clinical Operations for the Department. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.
An Associate Professor, Kevin has authored more than three dozen articles and book chapters concerning issues in Family Medicine. Dr. Ferentz has received more than a dozen teaching awards, including two national awards: the Exemplary Teaching Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Outstanding Program Director Award from the Association of Family Practice Residency Directors. He was named one of the Best Family Physicians by Baltimore Magazine in 1997, 2000, 2002, and 2007. The Ladies Home Journal named him one of the best Family Physicians in America in 2002. He was named to Best Doctors in America in 1998, 2002, and 2006. He appears in Who’s Who in America in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
One of his primary academic interests is on the recognition and treatment of Depression in the primary care setting. Kevin has participated in a number of clinical trials for anti-depressant medications and is recognized as a national thought leader regarding the care of mental illness in the primary care setting.
Kevin is a past-President of the Maryland Academy of Family Physicians and has served on several committees and commissions for the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is currently the Maryland Delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates. He is a member of Country Drama, a community theater group in Baltimore. 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.
