Penn Medicine Provider
Douglas H. Smith, MD
About me
- Robert A. Groff Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery
My Locations
Qualifications and experience
- American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, National
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, National
- Big 10/Ivy League Collaboration on Concussion, National
- Brain Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience-3 (BDCN-3) Study Section, National Institutes of Health., National
- Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania, Local
- British Neuropathological Society, International
- Department of Defense, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), Ecpert Panel on Blast Traumatic Brain Injury., National
- Department of Defense, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), Expert Panel on Sensors for Traumatic Brain Injury., National
- Department of Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program Programmatic Panel, National
- International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, International
- International Initiative for Traumatic Brain Injury Research (InTBIR), International
- International Neurotrauma Society, International
- International Society of Pathophysiology, International
- Member, Brain Injury and Neurovascular Pathologies (BINP) Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institute of Health, National
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National
- National Institute of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DOD), Veterans Administration, National
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Workshop on Therapy Development for Diffuse Axonal Injury, National
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, T32 Advisory Meeting, National
- National Institute on Aging (NIA), National
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National
- National Institutes of Health-NIH, National
- National Neurotrauma Society, National
- National Neurotrauma Society, International
- NST-4 NINDS Study Section F32 Review Panel, National
- Rutgers Cleveland Clinic Consortium of the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative medicine (RCCC-AFIRM), National
- Scientific Advisory Board, National Football League, National
- Society for Neuroscience, National
- University of Pennsylvania’s Biomedical Device Task Force, Local
- US Army Medical Research and Material Command, National
- US National Football League (NFL) Head Neck and Spine Committee., National
- US Veterans Administration Merit Grant Review Study Section, National
- Wellcome Trust of the U.K, International
My research
Sullivan, P. Z., AlBayar, A., Burrell, J. C., Browne, K. D., Arena, J., Johnson, V., Smith, D. H., Cullen, D. K., Ozturk, A. K. Implantation of Engineered Axon Tracts to Bridge Spinal Cord Injury Beyond the Glial Scar in Rats , Tissue Eng Part A: 2021
Smith, D. H., Dolle, J. P., Ameen-Ali, K. E., Bretzin, A., Cortes, E., Crary, J. F., Dams-O'Connor, K., Diaz-Arrastia, R., Edlow, B. L., Folkerth, R., Hazrati, L. N., Hinds, S. R., Iacono, D., Johnson, V. E., Keene, C. D., Kofler, J., Kovacs, G. G., Lee, E. B., Manley, G., Meaney, D., Montine, T., Okonkwo, D. O., Perl, D. P., Trojanowski, J. Q., Wiebe, D. J., Yaffe, K., McCabe, T., Stewart, W. COllaborative Neuropathology NEtwork Characterizing ouTcomes of TBI (CONNECT-TBI) , Acta Neuropathol Commun, 9(1): 2021,32
Gan, Z. S., Stein, S. C., Swanson, R., Guan, S., Garcia, L., Mehta, D., Smith, D. H. Blood Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury: A Quantitative Assessment of Diagnostic and Prognostic Accuracy , Front Neurol, 10: 2019,446
Smith, D. H., Stewart, W. ''Concussion'' is not a true diagnosis , Nat Rev Neurol, 16(9): 2020,457-458
Smith, D. H., Stewart, W. Genetic interplay with soccer ball heading , Nat Rev Neurol: 2020
Chen, H. I., Jgamadze, D., Lim, J., Mensah-Brown, K., Wolf, J. A., Mills, J. A., Smith, D. H. Functional Cortical Axon Tracts Generated from Human Stem Cell-Derived Neurons , Tissue Eng Part A, 25(9-10): 2019,736-745
Johnson, V. E., Stewart, W., Smith, D. H. Widespread tau and amyloid-beta pathology many years after a single traumatic brain injury in humans , Brain Pathol, 22(2): 2012,142-9
Verma, R., Swanson, R. L., Parker, D., Ould Ismail, A. A., Shinohara, R. T., Alappatt, J. A., Doshi, J., Davatzikos, C., Gallaway, M., Duda, D., Chen, H. I., Kim, J. J., Gur, R. C., Wolf, R. L., Grady, M. S., Hampton, S., Diaz-Arrastia, R., Smith, D. H. Neuroimaging Findings in US Government Personnel With Possible Exposure to Directional Phenomena in Havana, Cuba , JAMA, 322(4): 2019,336-347
Dolle, J. P., Jaye, A., Anderson, S. A., Ahmadzadeh, H., Shenoy, V. B., Smith, D. H. Newfound sex differences in axonal structure underlie differential outcomes from in vitro traumatic axonal injury , Exp Neurol, 300: 2018,121-134
Smith, D. H., Johnson, V. E., Stewart, W. Chronic neuropathologies of single and repetitive TBI: substrates of dementia? , Nat Rev Neurol, 9(4): 2013,211-21