INFECTIONS AND TREATMENT JOURNAL (ISSN:2634-0925)

Biography:

Smith received his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1986. He then went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine followed by the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at Saint Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. He has served as the Chief of Pulmonary at Saint Vincent's Midtown Hospital; Director of Medicine at Cabrini Medical Center, and Assistant Chairman of Medicine at Saint Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York before becoming Chairman of the Department of Medicine at New York Downtown Hospital in 2006 as well as the Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2012.

Currently, he is the Division Chief of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Program Director for the Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship at New York Presbyterian Queens. He is an Associate Attending on the medical staffs of New York Presbyterian, Lower Manhattan Hospital, and New York Presbyterial Queens. He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College.

Research Interests:

His research interest mainly focuses on treatment of COPD and Asthma, and the diagnosis of Lung Cancer. He is currently the site PI for a multi-center nationally funded trial focusing on the use of Beta-blokers in the treatment of COPD.