Dr. Smith received her MD degree from the University of California San Francisco, and her MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her general surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco, and her fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Smith serves as a trauma surgeon, emergency/elective general surgeon, and surgical critical care intensivist at Grady Memorial Hospital. Her special interests include violence prevention, injury prevention, clinical outcomes, and the use of ultrasound in critical care.

• Grady Memorial Hospital

• MD, University of California San Francisco, Class of 2008

• MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2005-2006

• General Surgery Residency, University of California San Francisco – East Bay Surgical Program, 2008-2015

• Fellowship, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, 2015-2017

• Kwan Global Health Project Fund Award, UCSF, 2012

• Surgery Resident Research Award, UCSF, 2013

• Resident Research Award, Society of Black Academic Surgeons, 2013

• Administrative Chief Resident, UCSF, 2014-2015

• Pilot Grant Recipient, University of Pennsylvania Injury Science Center, 2016

• Associate Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Center for Public Health Initiatives, 2016

• Administrative Trauma Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2017

• Society of Black Academic Surgeons

• Society of Critical Care Medicine

• Eastern Association of Surgery for Trauma

• Trauma surgery

• Violence prevention

• Injury prevention

• Global surgery

• Ultrasound in critical care

• Violence prevention

• Injury prevention

• Clinical outcomes