William Smith, MD, MBA, MPH

Associate Clin Prof Volunteer

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

  1. Wray CM, Sridhar A, Young A, Noyes C, Smith WB, Keyhani S. Assessing the Impact of a Pre-visit Readiness Telephone Call on Video Visit Success Rates. 2022. PMID: 35501627


  2. Lu AD, Veet CA, Aljundi O, Whitaker E, Smith Ii WB, Smith JE. A Systematic Review of Physical Examination Components Adapted for Telemedicine. 2022. PMID: 35363573


  3. Lu AD, Gunzburger E, Glorioso TJ, Smith WB, Kenney RR, Whooley MA, Ho PM. Impact of Longitudinal Virtual Primary Care on Diabetes Quality of Care. Journal of general internal medicine 2021. PMID: 33483815


  4. Smith WB, Kohlwes RJ. From Leather Bags to Webcams, the Emerging Tools of Tele-primary Care. Journal of general internal medicine 2020. PMID: 31898119


  5. Smith WB, Steinberg J, Scholtes S, Mcnamara IR. 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. PMID: 26520646


  6. Smith WB, McCaslin IR, Gokce A, Mandava SH, Trost L, Hellstrom WJ. PDE5 inhibitors: considerations for preference and long-term adherence. International journal of clinical practice 2013. PMID: 23869678


  7. Pankey EA, Byun RJ, Smith WB, Bhartiya M, Bueno FR, Badejo AM, Stasch JP, Murthy SN, Nossaman BD, Kadowitz PJ. 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. PMID: 22591047


  8. Bromberger B, Sternschein R, Widick P, Smith W, Chatterjee A. The right hemisphere in esthetic perception. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2011. PMID: 22016728