Don T. Smith Jr., MD, an Anesthesiologist with Centers for Pain Management
Get to know Anesthesiologist Dr. Don T. Smith Jr., who serves patients throughout the State of Georgia.
An experienced anesthesiologist, Dr. Smith Jr. joined Centers for Pain Management in 2014, seeing patients at their offices in Cordele and Tifton, Georgia.
A native of Tifton, he is a graduate of Tift County High School and Valdosta State University. He earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 1995, and completed his residency in anesthesiology at the same educational venue in 1999, serving his last year as Chief Resident.
In order to remain up to date in his field, Dr. Smith Jr. is an active member of the Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists, the Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and the American Medical Association.
Prior to his current roles, he served as a Phoebe Putney Memorial Staff Anesthesiologist at Albany Anesthesia Associates (1999-2004), and was affiliated with Phoebe Dorminy Medical Center where he served twice as chief of the medical staff and chief of anesthesia services while maintaining a growing pain practice.
Anesthesiology is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during, and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. Anesthesiologists have the primary responsibility of monitoring the patient’s vital signs during surgery. In addition to basic measurements such as pulse, blood pressure, and temperature, they measure the patient’s respiration.
An authority in his field, Dr. Smith Jr. has been the recipient of the Patients’ Choice Award (2018), and Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2018).
Happily married, he resides in Tifton with his wife, Nancy, and their three children, Trey, Hutton and Greyson.
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