Gerald William Smetana MD, MACP

Dr. Gerald W. Smetana is a general internist in an academic primary care practice at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He practices in an outpatient setting. He cares for a panel of patients that is weighted toward those with multiple chronic illnesses and high disease complexity. In addition to all aspects of office-based general internal medicine, his areas of interest include preoperative medical evaluation, hypertension, and headache.

Gerald W. Smetana teaches internal medicine to medical house staff and also extensively to practicing clinicians in continuing medical education settings. He has been repeatedly selected as a Best Doctor in a national survey and has received a national award for a scholarship in medical education. He publishes in peer-reviewed medical literature, UpToDate, and medical texts. He has edited textbooks and has helped to develop national guidelines on topics in internal medicine. He is an assistant editor for a recurring series in the Annals of Internal Medicine. He has reviewed cases for both plaintiffs and defendants and has testified both at trial and deposition in multiple states.

Dr. Smetana speaks widely at grand rounds and continuing medical education settings and has received numerous teaching awards for these contributions. He 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.