Maureen Smith, MD, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health Sciences & Family Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI

Email: maureensmith@wisc.edu

Biography:

Dr. Smith received M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Yale University School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration in 1999. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health Departments of Population Health Sciences and Family Medicine. She leads a research program that examines the effectiveness and equity of the health care system for aging and chronically ill persons. As Faculty Director of the Health Innovation Program (HIP), Director of the Community Academic Partnerships (CAP) Core of the new Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and Associate Director of Cancer Control Research at the UW Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, she is able to lead efforts at the UW to build a transformative research infrastructure that will create, consolidate, and translate new and existing knowledge into community-based practice to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes.

Dr. Smith is also the Director of the AHRQ-funded T32 Training Grant Program in Health Services Research and Healthcare Quality Improvement, which provides multidisciplinary training opportunities for pre and post-doctoral students. In addition to her duties as a professor and program director, Dr. Smith is a prolific researcher, currently acting as the Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator in eight active research grants. Her research program addresses the following goals: 1) to evaluate the impact of health system changes on access to and quality of medical care for older patients, 2) to improve health care decision making for older patients, and 3) to characterize factors that protect vulnerable patients against preventable complications of care and that assist patients in recovering from these complications. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Medical Care, and Quality and Safety in Healthcare. (Download CV)

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Recent Honors/Awards:

        2009                AHRQ John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award

        2007                Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society – Alumni Recognition

        1998                Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society – Student Recognition

Select Publications:

1. Greenblatt DY, Weber S, O'Connor ES, LoConte N, Liou J-I, Smith M. "Readmission after colectomy for cancer predicts one-year mortality." Ann Surg (in press).

2. Kind AJ, Smith MA, Liou J, Pandhi N, Frytak JR, Finch MD. "Discharge destination's effect on bounce-back risk in black, white, and Hispanic acute ischemic stroke patients." Arch Phys Med Rehabil (in press).

3. Sheehy AM, Flood G, Tuan WJ, Liou JI, Coursin DB, Smith MA.  "Analysis of diabetes screening guideliness in an ambulatory population. 2005-2007."  Mayo Clinic Proceed (in press).

4. LoConte N, Smith M, Alberti D, Bozeman J, Cleary J, Setala A, Wodtke G, Wilding G, Holen K.  "Amongst eligible patients, age and comorbidity do not predict for dose limiting toxicity from phase I chemotherapy."  Cancer Chemother Pharmacol (in press). [Link to abstract]

5. Golestanian E, Liou J, Smith MA.  "Long-term survival in older critically ill patients with acute ischemic stroke."  Crit Care Med 2009;37(12):3107-3113. [Link to abstract]

6. Everett CM, Schumacher J, Wright A, Smith MA.  "Physician assistants and nurse practitioners as a usual source of care."  J Rural Health 2009;25(4):407-14. [Link to abstract]

7. Schumacher J, Smith M, Liou J, Pandhi N.  "Insurance disruption due to spousal Medicare transitions: Implications for access to care and health care utilization for women approaching 65."  Health Serv Res 2009;44(3):946-964. [Link to abstract]

8. Pandhi N, Smith M, Kind AJH, Frytak J, Finch M.  "The quality of diabetes care following hospitalization for ischemic stroke."  Cerebrovasc Dis 2009;27:235-240. [Link to full text]

9. Massad S, Nieto FJ, Palta M, Smith M, Clark R, Thabet A.  "Mental health of children in Palestinian kindergartens: Resilience and vulnerability."  Child Adol Ment Health 2009;14:89-96.

10. Cox ED, Smith MA, Brown RL, Fitzpatrick MA.  "Learning to participate: Effect of child age and parental education on participation in pediatrics visits."  Health Commun 2009;24(3):249-58. [Link to abstract]

Courses Taught:

In the Population Health graduate program, Dr. Smith developed and teaches the introductory course in type 2 translational research (PHS 650).  She is also the lead instructor in developing a course in quality of healthcare and patient safety (PHS 703) to serve graduate students in both the Population Health program and Industrial Engineering. She also gives lectures on Quality of Care, Patient Safety, and Quantitative Methods in Population Health for students in the Population Health Sciences PhD Program, Masters of Public Health Program, and other graduate programs within the School of Medicine and Public Health.

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Contact Information:

Address:
Department of Population Health Sciences
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
505 WARF Building
610 North Walnut St.
Madison, WI 53726-2397 USA

E5/726 CSC
600 Highland Ave.
Madison, WI 53792-7685 USA