Kathleen Teresa Ferrer, MD
Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Infectious Diseases
HIV Medicine
Languages
- English
Gender
FemaleAbout Kathleen Teresa Ferrer
Titles
Hospitalist, Infectious Diseases
About the Provider
Kathleen Ferrer, MD, is an attending faculty physician in the Division of Hospital Medicine and HIV Prevention and Treatment Program in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Hospital. She serves as the education lead for the Children’s National Global Health Initiative and the lead physician for the Occupational Health COVID-19 Response. She is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
As a clinician for the Children’s National HIV Prevention and Treatment Program, Dr. Ferrer cares for children with perinatally- and horizontally-acquired HIV. She previously served as the medical director of the Baylor College of Medicine Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence in Lesotho, where she assisted with a scale-up of pediatric HIV care, treatment and prevention for the country.
She has been a critical leader in Children’s National’s COVID-19 response efforts. Through her work in the Occupational Health Department, she helped design and implement the organization’s COVID-19 testing protocols, practice and vaccination efforts for employees.
As the education lead for the Children’s National Global Health Initiative, Dr. Ferrer is cultivating the next generation of global health leaders and educators, while helping to build the our presence in the field of global child health. She is a Global Health faculty mentor for Children’s National residents and is co-director of the Pediatric Resident Global Child Health Pathway.
Dr. Ferrer received her undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University and attended Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey where she earned her MD She completed her residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Previously, she has also worked in Chinle, Arizona, with the Indian Health Service.
NPI
1588744833
Expertise
Education
Baylor College of Medicine
Resident, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, 2003Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Graduate, 1999Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Medical School, 1999Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Undergraduate, 1995Board Certifications
Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, 2003-
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2003Insurance
- Aetna
- Aetna Better Health of Maryland
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- Alliance Health Plan: Federal Employee Plan
- American Postal Workers Plan (Federal)
- Amerigroup DC
- Amerigroup Maryland
- AmeriHealth DC
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Virginia
- Anthem HealthKeepers Plus (VA)
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield Service Benefit Plan (Federal)
- CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield
- CareFirst Community Plan of Maryland
- ChoiceCare PPO (Humana)
- Cigna Healthcare of the Mid Atlantic (includes Great West Healthcare)
- Claimsbridge PPO
- Conifer Health
- First Health
- Government Employees Health Association (Federal)
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs (DC)
- Kaiser Permanente Maryland Medicaid: referral required
- Kaiser Permanente Virginia Medicaid
- Kaiser Permanente: referral required
- Mail Handlers (Federal)
- Maryland Physicians Care
- Medicaid Managed Care or Public Health Plans (Military)
- MedStar Family Choice (DC)
- MedStar Family Choice (MD)
- Molina Health Care of VA
- Multiplan/Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- National Association of Letter Carriers (Federal)
- Priority Partners MCO (MD)
- Tricare Humana Military
- U.S. Family Health Plans Johns Hopkins (Federal)
- United Virginia Medicaid
- UnitedHealthcare
- UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Maryland
- Virginia Premiere