Daniel Patrick Sulmasy, MD| Internal Medicine | MedStar Health
Daniel Patrick Sulmasy, MD
Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health
Provider is directly employed by MedStar HealthSpecialties: Internal Medicine
Languages: English
877-303-1460
Not Accepting New Patients
About me
Dr. Sulmasy is a general internist and philosopher. He serves as Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. His academic profile can be accessed at: Daniel Sulmasy » The Kennedy Institute of Ethics (georgetown.edu)
As a U.S. Civil Surgeon, he performs immigration exams.
Clinical areas of focus
- Acute Illness Treatment
- Chronic Disease Management
- Health Maintenance Exam
- Preventative Care
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Abdominal Pain
- Abnormal Blood
- Abnormal Breathing
- Abnormal Immunological Findings
- Abnormal Movements
- Abnormal Serum Enzyme Levels
- Acute Bronchitis
- Acute Sinusitis
- Allergies
- Anemia
- Angina
- Anus And Rectum Diseases
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aphagia And Dysphagia
- Artery Disorders
- Atherosclerosis
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Atrioventricular Block
- Back Pain
- Bladder Disorders
- Bleeding Disorders
- Bone Disorders
- Brain Disorders
- Breast Lump
- Candidiasis
- Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cellulitis
- Chest Pain
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Colitis
- Colon Cancer
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Cough
- Cutaneous Abscess, Furuncle And Carbuncle
- Cystitis
- Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Dementia
- Depressive Episode
- Diabetic Nephropathy
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Digestive System Diseases
- Digestive System Symptoms
- Diseases Of Esophagus
- Diseases Of Lip And Oral Mucosa
- Diseases Of Salivary Glands
- Diseases Of Upper Respiratory Tract
- Disorders Of Nose And Nasal Sinuses
- Diverticulitis
- Dyslipidemia
- Dyspnea
- Emphysema
- Endocrine Disorders
- Enlarged Prostate
- Fatigue
- Gallstones
- Gastritis
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Genitourinary Symptoms
- Gout
- Headache
- Heart Disease
- Hematuria
- Hemorrhoids
- High Blood Pressure
- High Cholesterol
- Hip Pain
- Hordeolum And Chalazion
- Hyperglycemia
- Hypertension
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypotension
- Influenza
- Kidney Stones
- Knee Pain
- Migraine
- Muscle Disorders
- Myocardial Infarction
- Nervous And Musculoskeletal Symptoms
- Obesity
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Pain In Throat And Chest
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Peripheral Artery Disease
- Pneumonia
- Polyuria
- Problems Related To Lifestyle
- Rash
- Respiratory Disorders
- Skin And Subcutaneous Tissue Disorders
- Skin Changes
- Skin Swelling And Lumps
- Sleep Disorders
- Sore Throat
- Specified Health Status
- Tachycardia
- Thyroid Disorders
- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Vein Disorders
- Venous Embolism
- Weight Loss
Procedures I perform
- 24-Hour Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Screening
- Acute Illness Treatment
- Advance Directive Planning
- Anxiety Treatment
- Asthma Management
- Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Cholesterol Screening
- Chronic Disease Management
- Diabetes Screening
- Electrocardiogram
- Flu Shot
- Health Maintenance Exam
- Immunization Administration
- Lipid Profile
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Pre-Operative Clearance
- Preventative Care
- Rash Treatment
- Respiratory Infection Treatment
- Urinary Tract Infection Treatment
Practice locations
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2233 Wisconsin Ave NW
3rd Fl Internal Medicine
Washington, DC, 20007
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
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Choice POS II
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CareFirst Administrators
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- IH-Open POS II
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- United Healthcare Choice
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Optimum Choice
- Aetna VA Exchange
- IH-EPO Plus
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Medicare Direct
- Choice POS II Open Access
- TRICARE East Prime
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- HighMark
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- HealthyBlue PPO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Choice POS
- Aetna Basic
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- UHC Passport
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Medicare FFS
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Beech Street PPO
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Aetna HMO
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- IH-HMO
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Tricare Reserve Select
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- IH-Network Only Plus
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- CIGNA EPO
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- First Health PPO
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Police and Fire Clinic
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- OA Plus
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Network OA
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- IH-POS Plus
- CareFirst EPO
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- Employee Health Plan
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Choice Fund PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- IH-PPO
- IH-Indemnity
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- TRICARE for Life East
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- TRICARE East Select
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- IH-Open HMO
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Sentara Health
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Aetna Classic 5000
- IH-POS
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Navigate
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- CIGNA PPO
- Blue Choice Advantage
- POS OA
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- First Health PPO
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- IH-Open HMO Option
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- United Student Resources
- CareFirst NASCO
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital (1987)
Internship: Johns Hopkins Hospital (1983)
Medical School: Weill Cornell Medical College (1982)
Medical School: Cornell University (1978)
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Books
- Sulmasy DP. The Healer’s Calling: A Spirituality for Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals. New York: Paulist Press, 1997.
Translated into Korean by Kim In-Gyu, published as Doctors, Nurses, and God: A Spirituality for Physicians and Health Care Professionals, Catholic Publishing House, Seoul, South Korea, 2010.
Chapter 2 reprinted as “The Healer’s Calling,” Human Development Fall 2020; 41(1): 62-75. - Sugarman J, Sulmasy DP, eds. Methods in Medical Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001, 2nd ed. 2010.
- Sulmasy DP. The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
- Sulmasy DP. A Balm for Gilead: Meditations on Spirituality and the Healing Arts. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
- Lazenby M, McCorkle R, Sulmasy DP, eds. Safe Passage: A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Schatzlein J, Sulmasy DP. Francis the Leper: Faith, Medicine, Theology, and Science. Phoenix, AZ: Tau Publishing, 2014.
- Rubenfeld S, Sulmasy DP, eds. Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust. Lantham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020.
- Sulmasy DP, Geller G, Levine DM, Faden R. The quality of mercy: caring for patients with do not resuscitate orders. JAMA 1992;267:682-686.
- Sulmasy DP. Physicians, cost-control, and ethics. Ann Intern Med 1992;116:920-926. (Also reprinted in Three Realms of Managed Care, JW Glaser and RP Hamel, eds., Sheed and Ward, 1997; translated into Italian and published as: Sulmasy DP. Medici, controllo dei costi ed etica. Medic 1993;1:137-144).
- Sulmasy DP, Terry PB, Weisman CS, Miller DJ, Stallings RY, Vettese MA, Haller KB. The accuracy of substituted judgments in patients with terminal diagnoses. Ann Intern Med 1998;128:621-629.
- Sulmasy DP. A biopsychosocial-spiritual model for the care of patients at the end of life. The Gerontologist 2002;42 (Suppl 3): 24-33.
- Sulmasy DP. Spiritual issues in the care of dying patients: “…it’s okay between me and God.” JAMA 2006;296:1385-1392.
- Sulmasy DP, Snyder L. Substituted interests and best judgments: an integrated model of surrogate decision-making. JAMA 2010;304:1946-7.
- Sulmasy DP. The last low whispers of our dead: when is it ethically justifiable to render a patient unconscious until death? Theor Med Bioeth 2018; 39:233-263.
- Sulmasy DP. Why dementia-specific advance directives are a misguided idea. J Am Geriatr Soc 2020;38:1603-5. DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16493
- Sulmasy DP. We need more wisdom, not more paper: a reply to Merel and Gaster. J Am Geriatr Soc 2020;38:1609-10. DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16494