Mark J. Ehrenreich, MD

• Wesleyan University, BA, Biology-Psychology (joint major), summa cum laude, 1980
• University of Maryland School of Medicine, MD, cum laude, 1985
• University of Maryland Medical System, Residency in Psychiatry, 1985 - 1989

Dr. Ehrenreich is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he was a member of the Combined Accelerated Program in Psychiatry (CAPP). He completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Maryland Psychiatry residency program. After residency, he joined the University of Maryland faculty as a consultation-liaison psychiatrist. He served as the Director of the Consultation Liaison Division for 25 years and as such he expanded the service to include specialized consultation services to the organ transplant programs, the cancer center, the endocrinology clinic, a vocational rehabilitation service, an HIV mental health and substance abuse clinic, and a Medical Crisis Counseling Center. He has extensive experience in transplant psychiatry, including consultation to the liver, kidney, lung, heart, face, and bone marrow transplant programs. He is the founding program director of the Department’s Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship program. He has been the Program Director of the University of Maryland / Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program since 2012 and the Chief of Education since 2014.  He was appointed Vice-Chair of Education for the Department of Psychiatry in 2024. He has been actively involved in the education of medical students, residents, and fellows for over 30 years. His interests include education, psychotherapy, and the psychiatric care of the medically ill.

Psychiatric education, consultation-liaison psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychiatric care of the medically ill

Miller CWT, Dubin HF, Ehrenreich MJ. Current Landscape, Obstacles, and Opportunities in the Teaching of Psychotherapy in Psychiatric Residency. Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. May 11, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypsc.2023.03.021

Miller CWT, Hodzic V, Ross DR, Ehrenreich MJ. Year-long Annotated Bibliography for Supervising Psychiatry Residents in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.  Academic Psychiatry. April 17, 2019 (PubMed ID: 30997655).

Himelhoch S, Edwards S, Ehrenreich M, Luber MP. Teaching Lifelong Research Skills in Residency: Implementation and Outcome of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Course. Journal of Graduate Medical Education 7(3): 445-50, 2015. PMID: 26457153

Teslyar P, Stock VM, Wilk CM, Camsari U, Ehrenreich MJ, Himelhoch S. Prophylaxis with Antipsychotic Medication Reduces the Risk of Post-Operative Delirium in Elderly Patients: A Meta-Analysis. Psychosomatics 54: 124-131, 2013. PMID: 23380670

Ehrenreich MJ, Robinson CT, Glovinsky DB, Dixon LB, Medoff DR, Himelhoch SS. Medical Inpatients’ Adherence to Outpatient Psychiatric Aftercare: A Prospective Study of Patients Evaluated By an Inpatient Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service.  International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 44(1): 1 – 15, 2012. PMID: 23356090

Himelhoch S, Ehrenreich M. Psychotherapy by primary-care providers: results of a national sample. Psychosomatics 48(4): 325-30, 2007. PMID: 17600169

Ehrenreich MJ. A case of the re-emergence of panic and anxiety symptoms after initiation of a high-protein, very low carbohydrate diet. Psychosomatics 47(2):178-9, 2006. PMID: 16508034