William Smith, MD, MBA, MPH
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

William “Billy” Smith, MD, MBA, MPH is based at the San Francisco VA Medical Center where he is the Director of Primary Care for the Sierra Pacific Regional Telehealth Hub (VISN21 Clinical Resource Hub). He leads a multidisciplinary team providing care to clinics throughout Northern California, Nevada, Hawaii, and Guam.

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A practicing primary care physician within the Division of General Internal Medicine, his overarching interests are in reducing healthcare access disparities as well as the creative use of technology to reshape healthcare delivery.

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine Internship & Residency University of California, San Francisco 2017
• MD Tulane University School of Medicine 2014
• MPH Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine 2014
• MBA University of Cambridge 2013
• BA University of Pennsylvania 2009

Publications (8)

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TelemedicineErectile DysfunctionPenile ErectionOsteotomyLong-Term Carerho-Associated KinasesArthroplasty, Replacement, KneeTelecommunicationsTibiaPatient PreferenceOsteoarthritis, KneeUrinary Tract InfectionsMarkov ChainsAngiotensin Receptor AntagonistsPhosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors

• A Systematic Review of Physical Examination Components Adapted for Telemedicine.
  Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2022 Lu AD, Veet CA, Aljundi O, Whitaker E, Smith Ii WB, Smith JE
• Impact of Longitudinal Virtual Primary Care on Diabetes Quality of Care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Lu AD, Gunzburger E, Glorioso TJ, Smith WB, Kenney RR, Whooley MA, Ho PM
• From Leather Bags to Webcams, the Emerging Tools of Tele-primary Care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Smith WB, Kohlwes RJ
• Medial compartment knee osteoarthritis: age-stratified cost-effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty, unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, and high tibial osteotomy.
  Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA 2015 Smith WB, Steinberg J, Scholtes S, Mcnamara IR
• Assessing the Impact of a Pre-visit Readiness Telephone Call on Video Visit Success Rates.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Wray CM, Sridhar A, Young A, Noyes C, Smith WB, Keyhani S
• PDE5 inhibitors: considerations for preference and long-term adherence.
  International journal of clinical practice 2013 Smith WB, McCaslin IR, Gokce A, Mandava SH, Trost L, Hellstrom WJ
• The Rho kinase inhibitor azaindole-1 has long-acting vasodilator activity in the pulmonary vascular bed of the intact chest rat.
  Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology 2012 Pankey EA, Byun RJ, Smith WB, Bhartiya M, Bueno FR, Badejo AM, Stasch JP, Murthy SN, Nossaman BD, Kadowitz PJ
• The right hemisphere in esthetic perception.
  Frontiers in human neuroscience 2011 Bromberger B, Sternschein R, Widick P, Smith W, Chatterjee A