Specialty Anesthesiology Facility Hayward/Fremont Medical Centers Department of Anesthesia Address 27400 Hesperian Blvd. Hayward CA 94545 39400 Paseo Padre Parkway Fremont CA 94538 Map & Directions Telephone Office: (510) 784-2069 Anesthesia Manager: (510) 784-4305 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

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It has been my joy to live here in the Northern California region. As a native of a little town close to Chicago, the temperate climate of the SF Bay area has been a pleasure. I did my undergraduate education after graduating from Oak Park and River Forest High School at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign followed by medical education at the University of Chicago. A great highlight of my training was my internship at the University of Hawai’i followed by three years at the world famous Harvard University Brigham and Women’s Hospital obtaining training in the principles and advance practices of anesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine. Returning to Chicago for a short period of time I attended at St. Joseph Hospital and the Neurological and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago. Feeling the call of the West (and the chill of the Chicago Hawk) I moved to Oakland, CA and began a practice with Northern California’s Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Hayward and Fremont, California. Interrupting my practice I returned to academia for a fellowship in ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks at the University of Texas at Houston. This fellowship has allowed me to offer more reliable and consistent options to patient undergoing procedures where peripheral blocks would be advantageous.

As an anesthesiologist I have the unique privilege to work with many different specialties within medicine. The goal no matter the surgery, procedure or other anesthetic need is to provide the most safe, effective and comfortable experience that I can for you. By bringing knowledge, experience and compassion to the job to work with you in this unique experience we can optimize your health and your experience.

Preparing for your anesthetic experience you may read, share stories or recall how anesthesia use to be done. Now, we have many more options for the patient depending on health history, type of surgery and post-operative goals. General anesthesia is still the mainstay of how we perform most anesthetics to provide the most pain free experience we can. Regional anesthesia techniques such as spinal and epidurals are very common for our patient’s having vaginal deliveries or c-sections as well as for many patients having total joint replacements. Very popular now are our peripheral nerve blocks that allow surgeons to operative on a shoulder, knee or ankle joint for example and reduce the amount of post-operative pain for the patients as well as much less nausea and vomiting.

Be Well,

Joycie M Smith, MD

My Credentials

Medical school	University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Internship	University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Residency	Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA
Fellowship	The University of Texas Medical At Houston, Houston, TX
Board certification	Anesthesiology, American Board of Anesthesiology

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