Biography
Smith has been active in a national effort to increase access to heart transplantation by improving the use of donor organs. He served as a primary investigator for a nationwide clinical trial on donation after cardiac death.
Smith earned his medical degree from the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago, then completed a residency in general surgery and a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. He completed a fellowship in heart and lung transplantation at Stanford Medicine. Upon completing his training, he joined the surgical faculty at the University of Washington. Prior to joining UCSF, he served as surgical director of transplant and mechanical circulatory support at the University of Wisconsin â Madison.
Smith serves on the membership and professional standards committee of the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. He frequently makes presentations on issues related to organ transplantation and utilization and belongs to numerous professional and honorary societies. He is a San Francisco native.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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Stanford University Hospital and Clinics | Heart and Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support | 06/2012 | |
Loyola University Medical Center | Cardiothoracic Surgery | 06/2011 | |
Loyola University Medical Center | General Surgery | 06/2009 | |
Loyola University Medical Center, Burn Shock Trauma Center | Research Fellowship | 06/2005 | |
Loyola University Medical School | MD | Medicine | 06/2002 |
Baylor University | BA | University Scholar | 12/1993 |
Board Certifications
American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Clinical Expertise
Heart Transplant
Total Artificial Heart support
left ventricular assist devices
minimally invasive LVAD surgery
Acute heart support
Extra Corporeal membrane oxygenator support (ECMO)
aortic valve repair and replacement
transcatheter aortic valve procedures
mitral valve replacement
mitral valve repair
tricuspid valve repair and replacement
endocarditis
ascending aortic aneurysm
aortic arch aneurysm
reoperative heart surgery
atrial fibrillation surgery
cardiac tumors
Program Affiliations
In the News
Research Interests
Organ donor utilization
DCD heart donation
ex-vivo heart perfusion
normothermic regional perfusion
Publications
- Beyond Glasgow Coma Scale: Prehospital prediction of traumatic brain injury.| | PubMed
- Structural racism: A concept analysis.| | PubMed
- Distance to Burn Center Does Not Impact Long-term Anxiety and Depression Risk Following Burn Injury.| | PubMed
- Six Square Miles of Urban America: Association Between Firearm Discharge, Injury, and Fatality.| | PubMed
- Phase I clinical trial of the feasibility and safety of direct peritoneal resuscitation in liver transplantation.| | PubMed
- Coagulopathy in Penetrating Ballistic Cranial Trauma: A 7-Year Experience.| | PubMed
- 2024 EAST Presidential Address: One Day.| | PubMed
- Not So Vats: How Early Is Too Early in the Operative Management of Patients with Traumatic Hemothorax?| | PubMed
- Author reply: "What do we mean by source control and what are we trying to accomplish with an open abdomen in severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis?"| | PubMed
- Applying the antecedent, behaviour, and consequence taxonomy to unintentional firearm injury as determined by a collaborative firearm injury database.| | PubMed