Emily Bethea, MD
Emily Bethea, MD
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation
About Emily Bethea, MD
Emily D. Bethea, MD is the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed Internal Medicine residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she stayed on for an additional invited year as a chief medical resident. She completed Gastroenterology and Hepatology fellowship followed by an Advanced Transplant Hepatology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She remains active in numerous societies and organizations, including the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment where she continues to apply simulation modeling and decision analytic methods to answer clinical questions and improve resource optimization in the areas of viral hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and organ transplantation. She remains dedicated to the clinical care of patients with liver disease.
Clinical Interests:
- Abnormal Liver Function Tests
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
- Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
- Liver disease / Hepatology
- Liver transplantation
- Liver tumors
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Portal hypertension
- Primary Biliary Cholangitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Gastroenterology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
General GI/Hepatology Office: 617-726-5925
Medical Education
- MD, University of Chicago
- Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Transplant Hepatology, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
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Always a grade A experience
[redacted] I adore my doctors. I think that Dr. Bethea is terrific, excellent superlative, and [redacted] also is absolutely fantabulous. So, I have just the most enormous gratitude. Thank you.
Dr Bethea and her staff have been very supportive and helpful in my care and are always willing to answer any questions that I may have. I am very lucky to have a wonderful care team to help me with this difficult time in my life.
I can't say enough. Everything was on time. Everything was organized. The best.
Compassionate, caring and extremely knowledgeable!
Dr. Bethea and her staff are on top of my care, and their communication is the best I've ever experienced. Dr. Bethea is incredibly proactive, thoughtful, and thorough. I feel honored to have her as my doctor and so grateful for the exceptional care she provides.
Dr. Bethea is amazing. I was blown away by the attentiveness, the patient focus, the expertise, and general demeanor and really surprising follow-up on some lab work. I couldn't be more glowing in my remarks, and I really look forward to working with this physician again. Thank you.
Dr. Bethea is the best and most caring doctor I've ever seen -- and I've seen a lot. Everyone I've interacted with at MGB has been exceptional, and even with that said, Dr. Bethea is a stand-out. She knows my history, she explains things very well, she asks my thoughts, she makes me feel comfortable and very well cared for.
Emily, and [redacted] are my two favorite doctors at Mass General and I see a lot of doctors. And they are most pleasant, most personable, caring individuals, very knowledgeable, and I appreciate that I have them to take care of me. And they've done an exceptional job at that. And I really do appreciate their kindness and their expertise.
Dr. Bethea is thoughtful and sensitive, and very knowledgeable about her field. She's very easy to talk to, and I have the utmost confidence in her re: our talks. To me she has the final word when it comes to my health. I trust her implicitly, and always look forward to my visits with her.