About me
Lauren Smith, MD, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained rheumatologist. She sees patients at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Rheumatology. Her areas of special interest and expertise include lupus, myositis, and rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis.
Dr. Smith’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Current Rheumatology Reports and Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. She has also been a presenter at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology and other professional meetings. Dr. Smith is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the American College of Rheumatology, where she is a member of the Collaborative Initiatives Committee, which is focused on outreach to community physicians and bridging the gaps caused by health disparities.
Her philosophy of care is centered on shared decision making with her patients. She takes the time to educate every patient about their condition so they can understand the disease and recommended treatment plan.
Dr. Smith earned her medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. She completed her residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and a fellowship in rheumatology at Johns Hopkins University. As a student, she shared her medical skills as a volunteer for DR Salud, a medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic, and as a volunteer for Equal Access Clinic in Gainesville, Florida.
When she’s not working, Dr. Smith enjoys exercising and traveling. She’s also a big basketball fan and played the sport competitively throughout high school and college.
Clinical areas of focus
- Arthritis
- Gout
- Myositis
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Scleroderma
- Sjogrens
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Vasculitis
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acute Arthritis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Anti Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- Antisynthetase Syndrome
- Aortic Arteritis
- Arthralgia
- Arthritis
- Arthritis Associated With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Arthritis Of Multiple Joints
- Arthropathy
- Behcet Syndrome
- Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
- Cranial Arteritis
- Crest
- Crystalline Arthritis
- Cutaneous Vasculitis
- Dermatomyositis
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus
- Enthesitis
- Erythema Nodosum
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Fibromyalgia
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Gonococcal Arthritis
- Gout
- Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
- Iga Vasculitis
- Igg 4 Related Diseases
- Inflammatory Arthritis (IA)
- Inflammatory Myopathy
- Inflammatory Polyarthropathy
- Isolated Central Nervous System Vasculitis
- Joint Disorder Of Multiple Joints
- Joint Effusion
- Joint Swelling
- Lupus Nephritis
- Macrophage Activation Syndrome
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Monoarticular Arthritis
- Myositis
- Neonatal Lupus Erythematosus
- Ocular Sarcoidosis
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Periodic Fever Syndromes
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Polyarthralgia
- Polyarthropathy
- Polychondritis
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica
- Polymyositis
- Positive Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Test
- Positive Ccp
- Positive Rf
- Post Infectious Arthritis
- Pseudogout
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Raynaud's Disease
- Reactive Arthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sacroiliitis
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroderma
- Sjogrens
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Still's Disease
- Synovitis
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Systemic Scleroderma
- Tenosynovitis
- Tophus
- Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease
- Uveitis
- Vasculitis
- Wrist Arthritis
Procedures I perform
- Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Blood Test
- Biologic Therapy For Rheumatologic Diseases
- Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 Test
- Joint Injection
- Non Surgical Management Of Osteoarthritis
Practice locations
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3800 Reservoir Road Northwest Pasquerilla Healthcare Center 3rd Fl Washington, DC, 20007
202-444-6200Fax 877-625-1471
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select (aka Senior Advantage)
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- CFBCBS EPO
- CIGNA EPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Open HMO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Tricare Prime
- FIRST HEALTH
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Aetna HMO
- United Student Resources
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- Opoen HMO Option
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Network OA
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- United Healthcare Choice
- Innovation Health: PPO
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- Choice Fund PPO
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Open POS II
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- First Health PPO
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- POS OA & OA Plus
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- CIGNA Indemnity
- PPO and PPO Plus
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Open EPO Plus
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Innovation Health: POS
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2022)
Residency: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2018)
Medical School: University of Florida Physician Assistant Program (2015)