Gerald B. Stephanz Jr., MD, FACP has been dedicated to helping patients with kidney disease for over 25 years. He “retired” to the Olympic Peninsula in 2015, after the clinical practice of Internal Medicine and Nephrology in Utah for 20 years; the last 10 years of his practice had been at Central Utah/Revere Clinic, in Provo, Utah.
Dr. Stephanz earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas in 1983; completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. He completed his Nephrology Fellowship at the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1990. He remains board certified in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Dr. Stephanz served the nephrology community by serving on the Intermountain ESRD Network 15 Medical Review Board for over 15 years.
He is a former board member of the Renal Physicians Association. He served as the nephrology consultant for HealthInsight (the Utah Quality Improvement Organization) for a CMS QIO CKD project ending in 2011 and served on a committee for the Utah Department of Health revising Utah Diabetic guidelines for 2012. He was medical director of multiple dialysis units, serving a diverse geographic and patient population.
Dr. Stephanz served on the medical review board for the National Kidney Foundation of Utah and Idaho. He isthe current medical director for the Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics Clinic in Port Angeles, and serves as chair on the Clallam County Board of Health.