Chair for Faculty Organization
Kevin Sherin, MD, MPH, MBA
Kevin Sherin, MD, MPH, MBA, is currently serving as a founding faculty and professor of primary care at the Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Sherin is a graduate of the Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago and holds certifications in Family medicine, Geriatrics, Addiction Medicine, and Preventive Medicine. He is the founding chair of the faculty organization and, as ex officio, is the newest member of the Dean’s Council. He has been active in the preclinical curriculum at OCOM as course director of hematology/oncology and endocrinology. He is an assistant course director for ENT, Cardiology, Neurology, Geriatrics, and Emergency Medicine. Sherin currently serves on the admissions committee.
He had OCOM’s first official publication in the August 15, 2023 issue of The American Family Physician. He has a poster submission to the annual meeting of the American College of Preventive Medicine ACPM in April in Washington, DC. He is heading up an evidence-based review of calorie energy deficit through lifestyle medicine in reversing the twin epidemics of type 2 diabetes and obesity for the ACPM science and translation committee. He also serves on ACPM’s strategic planning committee.
He recently served as the Founding Program Director, of the AdventHealth Sebring family medicine residency and later as an HIV physician in the Florida Department of Health in Seminole County. Earlier in his career he served as a founding program director for the UUC-Christ family medicine residency in the Chicago area and had worked with Rush medical college and the University Of Illinois college of medicine.
He is an adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and an adunct Clinical Professor, in the Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health at FSU College of Medicine. He has published textbook chapters, research publications, and editorials cited by Academia, PubMed, and ResearchGate. He received the Gold Humanism Honor Society recognition from FSUCOM in 2016 and the Outstanding Service Award from the American College of Preventive Medicine in 2018. He was the Founding Medical Director of Clinica Mi Salud, a free clinic serving the uninsured on Orlando’s east side. He was also named a physician volunteer of the year by Shepherds Hope which has a model clinic in Winter Garden.
Dr. Sherin has also served as a public health official in three states. He has decades of practice experience in family medicine, hospital medicine, and public health. He pioneered a program of research in partner violence screening by developing the HiTS tool, which has a copyright and is used worldwide.