Welcome!

I'm Dr. Katie Pencek, and I'm a board certified internist. I'm also a wife, a mother, a runner, and a book worm. I founded Hometown Health after realizing that the traditional healthcare system would not allow me to provide my patients with the type of thoughtful, meaningful, and compassionate care I pride myself in. 

I grew up in Northern Baltimore County (The Hereford Zone, and the reason for the name Hometown), attended Clemson University, and completed my medical degree at the University of South Carolina in Greenville. I then completed my internal medicine residency at Inova Fairfax Medical Center in Northern Virginia and worked as a Clinical Instructor at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in the division of Hospital Medicine. I took care of incredibly complex patients in the hospital, many of whom had illnesses that could have been slowed or prevented had they had better access to primary care. I realized my true passion lies in keeping my patients out of the hospital. I sought a way to practice primary care on my own terms in a way that would bring back the joy of medicine and benefit my patients; and Hometown Health was born.