Who Are Smith Scholars?

Accomplishments of Smith Scholars

Smith Scholars’ Volunteer Work
The following is a sampling of volunteer work done by Smith Scholars over the years:

• Medical missionaries in Afghanistan, Borneo, Kenya, Pakistan, Haiti and Tanzania

• Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia

• Volunteer in an Oregon clinic that asses suspected victims of child abuse and neglect

• Volunteers at Virginia medical clinics in Williamsburg, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Alexandria and Arlington

• Physicians for Peace volunteer in Haiti

• Member of the Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect

• SWAT team physician and flight surgeon with the Air National Guard

• Volunteer with Cambodian refugees who survived the Killing Fields in 1989-90

• Volunteer at the Betty Ford Center

• Director of the Western Tidewater Health District

• President of the Virginia Rural Health Resource Center

• Founder of two Richmond hospices Vice-chair of the Norfolk Community Services Board

• Vice-chair of the Norfolk Community Services Board

• Board member of Northern Virginia Community College

• Chair of the ethics committee at Mission St. Josephs Hospital System in Asheville, N.C.

• Board member of Little Sisters of the Poor in Richmond

• Helped establish medical scholarships at U.Va. School of Medicine and VCU School of Medicine

• Medical director of the New Berlin Fire Department in Wisconsin

• Board member of Stoney Point Surgical Center in Richmond

• President of the University of Virginia Medical Student Association

• Founder of the University of Virginia chapter of Building Tomorrow: Destination Kampala

• Member of the Eastern Virginia Medical School admissions committee

• Homeless shelter volunteer of Charleston

• Board member of Hope Medical Outreach in Nebraska

• Founder of the Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists of new York
  

Smith Scholars’ Professional Work
The following is a sampling of professional work done by Smith Scholars over the years:

• President of the American Medical Association

• President of the International Society of Pediatric Surgical Oncology

• President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology

• Presidents of the Medical Society of Virginia

• Commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

• CEO of the Virginia Department of Health

• Founder of the Lion’s Medical Eye Bank Research Center at Eastern Virginia Medical School

• Head of the nephrology department at the University of Virginia School of Medicine

• Best Doctor in America awards

• Chief of pediatric urology for Egleston Children’s Hospital in Atlanta

• Psychiatrist at Fort Lee for service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

• Physician of the Year in Tennessee Sports Medicine

• Virginia Physician of the Year

• Founder of Virginia Eye Institute in Richmond

• Faculty members at U.Va., VCU and EVMS medical schools a well as East Carolina University School of Medicine

• Dean of admissions at University of Virginia Medical School

• Author of The Third Third about health for people over age 60

• Woman Physician of the Year at VCU School of Medicine

• Head of the department of clinical investigation at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash.

• Vietnam War surgeon

• National Young Internist of the Year

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Researcher in pharmacology

• Director of radiology at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah

• President of the Virginia Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology

• President of the Norfolk Academy of Medicine

• President of the Virginia Occupational Medical Association

• President of the Virginia Surgical Society

• President of the Medical Staff at Mary Washington Hospital

• President of the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians

• President of the Raleigh Academy of Medicine

• President of the North Carolina Thoracic Society

• President of the Radiological Society of West Virginia

• President of the Hampton Roads Academy of Family Practice

• President of the Tri-County Medical Society

• President of the Virginia Society for Pathology

• President of the Lynchburg Academy of Medicine

• President of the Roanoke Academy of Medicine

• President of the Virginia Society of Ophthalmology

• President of the Psychiatric Society of Virginia

• President of the Virginia Oncology Society

• President of the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians

• President of the staff of Lynchburg General and Virginia Baptist Hospital

• President Richmond Pediatric Society

• President of the Florida Infectious Disease Society

• President of the Tidewater Dermatological Association

• President of the Northwest Florida Academy of Physicians

• Resident of the year at Howard University College of Medicine

• Chief of obstetrics and infectious disease at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio

• President of the Albemarle County Medical Society

• Board of trustees of the American Society of Internal Medicine

• Presidents of the staff at Maryview Medical Center in Portsmouth and Southampton Memorial Hospital in Franklin

• Chair of the surgery department at Carilion Radford Community Hospital in Radford

• Founder of a coronary care unit at Southampton Memorial Hospital in Franklin

• Interns of the year at various medical schools

• Professor of internal medicine, microbiology and immunology at VCU School of Medicine

• Assistant professor of neurology and pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania

• Assistant professor or pharmacology at the University of Virginia Medical School

• Member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ National Committee on Public Education

• Assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Washington

• Assistant professor of internal medicine at Georgetown University Medical School

• Fairfax County Health Department medical director

• Conducted protein research that has led to 30,740 publications and citations

• Public health officer in Virginia and Tennessee

• Chief forensic pathologist in Springfield, Mo. and 20 surrounding counties

• Chief of Adult Reconstruction in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at VCU School of Medicine

• Director of the department of infectious diseases at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Fla.

• Chairman of the division of medicine at Johnson Willis Hospital

• Medical director of palliative care at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y.

• Treasurer of the Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium

• Associate professor of neurology and neuro-ophthalmology at VCU School of Medicine

• Medical director of Shiffert Health Center at Virginia Tech

• Chair of plastic surgery at Washington Hospital Center in Seattle

• Professor of Pediatrics Medical University of South Carolina

• Chief of ophthalmology at Licking Memorial Hospital in Newark, Ohio

• Program director of the Sutter Health Family Practice Residency Program in Sacramento

• Chair of the pediatrics department at Pratt Medical Center in Fredericksburg

• Professor microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland Medical School

• Managing physician at Virginia Cancer Institute in Richmond

• Surgical resident of the year at Morehouse School of Medicine

• Medical student teaching awards from U.Va. and VCU schools of medicine

• Helped found Southwest Virginia’s first osteoporosis center

• Nationally known researchers in numerous fields, including urology, endocrinology, pediatrics, pharmacology, surgery, neonatology, gynecology, geriatrics, immunology and neurology.

• Director of admissions at the University of Virginia School of Medicine

• Chief of aerospace medicine for the Air National Guard

• President of the Chesapeake General Hospital medical staff

• Director of cardiology for Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News

• Chairman of the Adolescent Bariatric Committee of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery
  

• President of the medical staff at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
  

• Investigator on more than 60 clinical trials related to women's health
  

• Food and Drug Administration consultant on pediatric obesity treatments
  

• Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine
  

• Investigator on many clinical trials related to ulcers and colitis
  

• Associate director for Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency Program

• Associate director of admissions at the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Virginia