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Best Primary Care & Internal Medicine Doctors in Bethesda & Montgomery County (2026)

Board-certified internists and family physicians for adult preventive care, chronic disease management, and annual physicals. Our editorial team ranks these 28 doctors on credentials, training, peer recognition, and verified patient-review data.

  1. Laura H. Brown, MD

    4.9 (268)

    Primary Care & Internal Medicine North Bethesda · Rockville

    One of the strongest overall primary-care picks in the area: a Washingtonian 2025 Top Doctor with excellent Johns Hopkins patient ratings and Harvard training.

    Board certified Washingtonian 2025 Top Doctor
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  2. Annie George, MD

    4.9 (339)

    Primary Care & Internal Medicine North Bethesda · Rockville

    A strong patient-experience profile with broad adult primary-care scope, including women’s health and preventive medicine, and care in four languages.

    Board certified
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  3. Mi Na Son, MD

    4.9 (407)

    Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda

    A newer-patient-friendly Johns Hopkins internist with a lifestyle-medicine orientation and trilingual care; reviews highlight unhurried, clear visits.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  4. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda

    A high-volume, high-rating Johns Hopkins primary-care option with long clinical experience and Washingtonian Top Doctor recognition.

    Board certified Washingtonian Top Doctor
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  5. Ali Sanai, MD

    4.9 (80)

    Primary Care & Internal Medicine Chevy Chase

    A Chevy Chase concierge internist with strong peer recognition, more than three decades of experience, and a deep bench of verified positive reviews.

    Board certified Concierge Washingtonian Top Doctor (2023, 2024, 2025)
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  6. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda · Potomac

    A concierge MDVIP internist in Bethesda with 20+ years of experience, blending preventive and integrative medicine, women's health, and nutrition in an unhurried, relationship-based practice.

    Board certified Concierge
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  7. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Chevy Chase · Bethesda

    A Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and GW clinical associate professor who has practiced in Washington since 1986 — and one of very few Russian-speaking internists in the Bethesda–Chevy Chase corridor.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  8. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda

    A bilingual MedStar internist in Bethesda offering full-range adult primary care — and one of the area's most highly rated primary-care physicians.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  9. Robert Clark, MD

    4.8 (134)

    Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda

    A strong conventional internal-medicine option inside MedStar’s Bethesda primary-care practice, with consistently high patient-experience scores.

    Board certified
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  10. William Condrell, MD

    4.7 (2118)

    Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda

    A Georgetown-trained internist who founded Spring Valley Internal Medicine in 1999 — known for unhurried, relationship-based adult primary care and repeated Top Doctor recognition.

    Board certified Accepting patients Washingtonian Top Doctor (2014, 2017)
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  11. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Chevy Chase

    A Columbia-trained internist with decades of Washington-area experience, offering relationship-based adult primary care in Chevy Chase.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  12. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda · Rockville · Chevy Chase · Potomac

    A well-reviewed private-practice internist serving Bethesda, Potomac, Rockville and Chevy Chase, with a perfect Zocdoc score across verified reviews.

    Board certified Concierge
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  13. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda

    A bilingual internist with more than four decades of experience, providing adult primary care in Bethesda and affiliated with George Washington University Hospital.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  14. Lauren Sigmon, PA-C

    4.9 (144)

    Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda · North Bethesda

    A patient-centered CloseKnit physician assistant offering same- and next-day primary, preventive, and women's health care in Bethesda — in person and by telehealth across Maryland.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  15. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Rockville

    A DC-area native and osteopathic internist at Quality Primary Care Associates in Rockville, focused on prevention, chronic disease management, and patient-led decision-making.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  16. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Chevy Chase · Bethesda

    A certified PA with a nutrition degree and an emergency-medicine background — the combination that makes her unusually good at triaging what needs urgent attention and what needs a diet-and-habits conversation.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  17. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda

    An NCCPA-certified physician assistant at CloseKnit Bethesda treating everyday illness, chronic conditions, and minor injuries — caring for diverse patients in English and Igbo.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  18. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Rockville

    A Vietnamese-speaking internist in Rockville who directs Montgomery Medical's hospital practices, with a rare span of care from the office to the hospital, the nursing home, and palliative care.

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  19. Kathryn D. Kelly, MD

    4.8 (1156)

    Primary Care & Internal Medicine Silver Spring

    A board-certified internist and founder of Kelly Collaborative Medicine in Silver Spring, a former chief resident with one of the largest patient-review followings in the area (4.85 stars across 1,150+ reviews).

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  20. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Silver Spring

    A board-certified internist in Silver Spring who consults in five languages — English, Yoruba, French, Creole, and Spanish — making him one of the most linguistically accessible primary-care doctors in the county.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  21. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Silver Spring

    A board-certified internist and infectious-disease specialist at Kelly Collaborative Medicine in Silver Spring, NIH-fellowship-trained, bringing an infectious-disease depth to everyday adult primary care.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  22. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Bethesda

    An Amharic-speaking internist and hospital-medicine physician with more than 20 years of experience, trained at Addis Ababa University and affiliated with Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center.

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  23. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Silver Spring

    A trilingual (English/Amharic/Spanish) internist with four decades of experience, a longtime primary-care doctor for Silver Spring's Ethiopian community.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  24. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Rockville

    A Hindi- and Punjabi-speaking internist and founder of Kaur Internal Medicine in Rockville, offering detail-oriented adult primary care with a quarter-century of experience.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  25. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Chevy Chase

    A French-speaking, Wake Forest–trained internist in Chevy Chase, offering relationship-based adult primary care for acute and chronic conditions.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  26. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Silver Spring

    An Ethiopian, Amharic-speaking internist in downtown Silver Spring with more than three decades of experience in adult primary care — a familiar, trusted name for the area's Ethiopian community.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  27. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Rockville

    A Mandarin-speaking internist and geriatric-care physician in Rockville, caring for adults in the clinic and in nursing-home settings with a focus on diabetes and blood-pressure control.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  28. Primary Care & Internal Medicine Rockville

    A Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking internist in Rockville with more than three decades of experience — a long-standing primary-care choice for the area's Chinese-speaking families.

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By the numbers

28
doctors in our registry — 20% of all 139
9
countries of medical training across 20 schools
53%
did residency in the DC–Baltimore area (of 17 whose residency we record)
19
confirmed accepting new patients (of 19 we checked)

Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Training figures cover the 23 of 28 profiles that record a medical school. How we build this list.

Where they trained

The 23 doctors whose medical school we could place studied at 20 institutions in 9 countries — 11 (48%) trained outside the United States.

20 institutions attended by doctors, grouped by country and ranked by how many of them trained there.

United States12 doctors

  • Georgetown University School of MedicineWashington, DC2 doctors
  • Wake Forest University School of MedicineWinston-Salem, NC2 doctors
  • Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsNew York, NY1 doctor
  • George Washington University School of MedicineWashington, DC1 doctor
  • Harvard Medical SchoolBoston, MA1 doctor
  • Howard University College of MedicineWashington, DC1 doctor
  • Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic MedicineDavie, FL1 doctor
  • Ohio State University College of MedicineColumbus, OH1 doctor
  • University of Maryland School of MedicineBaltimore, MD1 doctor
  • University of Missouri School of MedicineColumbia, MO1 doctor

Ethiopia3 doctors

  • Addis Ababa University College of Health SciencesAddis Ababa, Addis Ababa2 doctors
  • University of Gondar College of Medicine and Health SciencesGondar, Amhara1 doctor

India2 doctors

  • St. John's Medical CollegeBengaluru, Karnataka1 doctor
  • Thanjavur Medical CollegeThanjavur, Tamil Nadu1 doctor

Ecuador1 doctor

  • Universidad Central del EcuadorQuito, Pichincha1 doctor

Sint Maarten1 doctor

  • American University of the Caribbean School of MedicineCupecoy, Sint Maarten1 doctor

Russia1 doctor

  • Sechenov First Moscow State Medical UniversityMoscow, Moscow1 doctor

Argentina1 doctor

  • Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de MedicinaBuenos Aires, Buenos Aires1 doctor

Peru1 doctor

  • Universidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosLima, Lima1 doctor

China1 doctor

  • Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan, Hubei1 doctor

Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 23 of 28 profiles whose medical school we could identify; 5 record none. How we build this list.