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Gerald Smetana, MD, Internal Medicine, Boston, MA

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Internal Medicine • Boston, MA

Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Division of General Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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  • Office

    330 Brookline Ave
    Boston, MA 02215
    Phone+1 617-754-9600
    Fax+1 617-667-8665

Summary

  • Dr. Smetana is a general internist in the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco and completed his medical internship and residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He is an active teacher clinician with a large primary care practice. Colleagues have repeatedly recognized Dr. Smetana as one of the Best Doctors in America in a peer survey.

    Dr. Smetana has written numerous book chapters and systematic reviews in the peer-reviewed literature that provide guidance to clinicians on the value of historical features in the diagnosis of common medical conditions and on evidence based approaches to perioperative risk reduction.

    He is the co-editor of textbooks on perioperative medicine and evidence-based medical history taking, served as a deputy editor at JGIM, and is an editor for the Beyond the Guidelines series in the Annals of Internal Medicine. He is the recipient of the SGIM national award for scholarship in medical education and is also an active member of the American College of Physicians. In 2016, he was selected as a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP).

    Dr. Smetana has directed continuing medical education courses for Harvard Medical International in Switzerland, and for the CDC and Beth Israel Deaconess in Vietnam. He was a course director for Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care, a series of primary care CME conferences attended by nearly 30,000 clinicians each year. He is currently the co-director of the Harvard Medical School course: Prevention in Primary Care Practice; Pearls and Pitfalls.

    Other interests include evaluation of patients with headache, evidence based management of hypertension, diagnostic dilemmas in primary care, primary ca

Education & Training

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1984 - 1987
  • University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
    University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 1984

Certifications & Licensure

  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 1986 - 2025
  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 2011 - 2020
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Boston Magazine Castle Connolly, 2013
  • Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program National Committee for Quality Assurance, 2013-2016
  • Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2011

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Should This Woman with Dense Breasts Receive Supplemental Breast Cancer Screening?: Grand Rounds Discussion from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center  
    Risa B Burns, Joann G Elmore, Christoph I Lee, Gerald W Smetana, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • What Should Be the Target Blood Pressure for This Older Patient with Hypertension?: Grand Rounds Discussion from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center  
    Gerald W Smetana, Howard Libman, Annals of Internal Medicine

Lectures

  • Annals of Internal Medicine Beyond the Guidelines: Diabetes 
    2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/13/2019
  • New FDA-Approved Medications That You Need to Know About 
    2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/12/2019
  • Perioperative Medicine 2019 
    2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/9/2019
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Other

Press Mentions

  • Firearms, by Far, the Most Lethal Method for Suicide
    Firearms, by Far, the Most Lethal Method for SuicideDecember 2nd, 2019
  • Grand Rounds Discussion: What Is the Role of Weight Loss Surgery in Obesity?
    Grand Rounds Discussion: What Is the Role of Weight Loss Surgery in Obesity?June 22nd, 2017
  • Managing Stress When You Have Diabetes
    Managing Stress When You Have DiabetesDecember 22nd, 2014
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