GeraldWilliamSmetanaMDMACP
Internal Medicine • Boston, MAProfessor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Division of General Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Office
330 Brookline Ave
Boston, MA 02215Phone+1 617-754-9600Fax+1 617-667-8665- Is this information wrong?
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 CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1984 - 1987
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 1984
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 1986 - 2025
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
- How Would You Manage This Patient With Chronic Insomnia? : Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.Howard Libman, Eric S Zhou, Eric Heckman, Gerald W Smetana> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 2022 Dec 1
- 1 citationsHow Would You Manage This Male Patient With Hypogonadism? : Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.Howard Libman, Marc Cohen, Michael S. Irwig, Gerald W. Smetana> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 2021 Aug 10
- Should You Recommend Cannabinoids for This Patient With Painful Neuropathy? : Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.Gerald W. Smetana, Jeanette M. Tetrault, Kevin P. Hill, Risa B. Burns> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 2021 Feb 1
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Journal Articles
- Should This Woman with Dense Breasts Receive Supplemental Breast Cancer Screening?: Grand Rounds Discussion from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterRisa 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 CenterGerald W Smetana, Howard Libman, Annals of Internal Medicine
Lectures
- Annals of Internal Medicine Beyond the Guidelines: Diabetes2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/13/2019
- New FDA-Approved Medications That You Need to Know About2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/12/2019
- Perioperative Medicine 20192019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/9/2019
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Other
- Medical consultation for electroconvulsive therapySmetana GW, Tess A
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/medical-consultation-for-electroconvulsive-therapy
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-03-13 - Approach to the patient with night sweatsSmetana GW
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/approach-to-the-patient-with-night-sweats
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-04-02 - Evaluation of preoperative pulmonary riskSmetana GW
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/evaluation-of-preoperative-pulmonary-risk
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-01-24 - Join now to see all
Press Mentions
Firearms, by Far, the Most Lethal Method for SuicideDecember 2nd, 2019
Grand Rounds Discussion: What Is the Role of Weight Loss Surgery in Obesity?June 22nd, 2017
Managing Stress When You Have DiabetesDecember 22nd, 2014
Hospital Affiliations
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBoston, Massachusetts
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