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 – 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
Clinical Trials
- Related Conditions: Heart Transplant, Transplants| Start Date: | End Date:
Program Affiliations
In the News
Research Interests
Organ donor utilization
DCD heart donation
ex-vivo heart perfusion
normothermic regional perfusion
Publications
- Six Square Miles of Urban America: Association Between Firearm Discharge, Injury, and Fatality.| | View in PubMed
- Phase I clinical trial of the feasibility and safety of direct peritoneal resuscitation in liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- 2024 EAST Presidential Address: One Day.| | View in PubMed
- Distance to Burn Center Does Not Impact Long-term Anxiety and Depression Risk Following Burn Injury.| | View in 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?"| | View in PubMed
- Applying the antecedent, behaviour, and consequence taxonomy to unintentional firearm injury as determined by a collaborative firearm injury database.| | View in PubMed
- Increasing Utilization of Extended Criteria Donor Hearts for Transplantation: The OCS Heart EXPAND Trial.| | View in PubMed
- A Decade of Analysis of Unplanned Extubation Etiology in Trauma Patients Including the Impact of the COVID Pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Expanding the Donation After Circulatory Death Transplant Pool in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Plasma resuscitation improves and restores intestinal microcirculatory physiology following haemorrhagic shock.| | View in PubMed
- Damage control surgery in emergency general surgery: What you need to know.| | View in PubMed
- Establishing a core outcome set for blunt cerebrovascular injury: an EAST modified Delphi method consensus study.| | View in PubMed
- Transplantation Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death.| | View in PubMed
- Comment on: Detection and management of HLA sensitization in candidates for adult heart transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Establishing a core outcomes set for massive transfusion: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma modified Delphi method consensus study.| | View in PubMed
- Molecules, Machines, and the Perfusate Milieu: Organ Preservation and Emerging Concepts for Heart Transplant.| | View in PubMed
- Effect of Plasma Resuscitation with Adjunctive Peritoneal Resuscitation on Hepatic Blood Flow and End-Organ Damage after Hemorrhagic Shock.| | View in PubMed
- Direct Peritoneal Resuscitation for Trauma.| | View in PubMed
- A new pandemic and an old epidemic: The impact of COVID-19 and gun violence as measured by years of potential life lost in a US city.| | View in PubMed
- Normothermic regional perfusion surgical technique for the procurement of cardiac donors after circulatory death.| | View in PubMed
- Unconventional use of total artificial heart in a patient with severe, destructive prosthetic valve endocarditis.| | View in PubMed
- Survival after orthotopic heart transplantation in patients with BMI > = 35 with and without diabetes.| | View in PubMed
- Left ventricular assist device implantation by bi-thoracotomy technique: A single-center perspective.| | View in PubMed
- Risk factors and outcomes for delayed kidney graft function in simultaneous heart and kidney transplant recipients: A UNOS/OPTN database analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Successful heart transplantation in a patient who recovered from COVID-19.| | View in PubMed
- Orthotopic Heart Transplant: How I Teach It.| | View in PubMed
- Amiodarone Use Prior to Cardiac Transplant Impacts Early Post-Transplant Survival.| | View in PubMed
- 2020 ACC/HFSA/ISHLT Lifelong Learning Statement for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Specialists: A Report of the ACC Competency Management Committee.| | View in PubMed
- 2020 ACC/HFSA/ISHLT Lifelong Learning Statement for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Specialists: A Report of the ACC Competency Management Committee.| | View in PubMed
- Long-term discontinuation of warfarin in a patient with HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device without complication.| | View in PubMed
- Small Left Ventricular Size Is an Independent Risk Factor for Ventricular Assist Device Thrombosis.| | View in PubMed
- Left Ventricular Assist Device Inflow Cannula Angle and Thrombosis Risk.| | View in PubMed
- Dilemmas in Dual Disease: Complexity and Futility in Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis and Substance Use Disorder.| | View in PubMed
- Invited Commentary.| | View in PubMed
- Pulmonary function tests do not predict mortality in patients undergoing continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation.| | View in PubMed
- The Benefit of Donor-Recipient Matching for Patients Undergoing Heart Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Outflow Graft Obstruction Treated With Transcatheter Management: A Novel Therapy for a New Diagnosis.| | View in PubMed
- Successful Repair of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection 15 Years Following Bilateral Lung Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Endovascular Repair for Type A Aortic Dissection After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With a Medtronic CoreValve.| | View in PubMed
- Systematic donor selection review process improves cardiac transplant volumes and outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- Periportal fibrosis without cirrhosis does not affect outcomes after continuous flow ventricular assist device implantation.| | View in PubMed
- Late Surgical Bleeding Following Total Artificial Heart Implantation.| | View in PubMed
- Self-administration education and polypharmacy in mechanical circulatory support patients.| | View in PubMed
- The influence of (18)flourodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography on the management of gastroesophageal junction carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Immunologic responses to critical injury and sepsis.| | View in PubMed
- New perspectives for a new century: implications of pathogen responses for the future of antimicrobial therapy.| | View in PubMed