Sidney C. Smith, Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Sidney C. Smith Jr. is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Smith received his M.D. from Yale University. He completed a residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at Harvard Medical School/Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Prior to assuming his present position at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Smith was Director of the San Diego Cardiac Center at Sharp Healthcare, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He previously served as Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the University of Colorado and was Chief of Cardiology at the University of North Carolina from 1994 to 2001.
Dr. Smith served as national President of AHA (1995-96) and was the first Chief Science Officer of the American Heart Association from 2001-2003. Currently, he serves as Vice-Chair of the ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines and Chair of the ACC/AHA Committee to Revise the PCI Guidelines. Dr Smith is currently Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the World Heart Federation. He is Vice President of the Inter American Society of Cardiology. He is a primary author of the Principles for National and Regional Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and is active at the international level in the development and implementation of programs to prevent cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Smith's early research focus involved lipoprotein abnormalities, reperfusion therapies for acute myocardial infarction and medical management of unstable angina pectoris. Currently his interests center on the evaluation of primary and secondary prevention efforts in the treatment of cardiovascular disease and the use of guidelines and performance measures to assess cardiovascular outcomes in healthcare systems.
Dr. Smith is a member of Editorial Boards including Circulation, the Journal of Interventional Cardiology, ACCEL, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Journal, and served on the Medical Advisory Board for Time-Life Medical Series. Dr. Smith is the author of more than 200 articles and book chapters and presents regularly at scientific meetings and guest lectures. He has spoken about heart disease and stroke in interviews with CNN, CBS, NBC, and multiple national newspapers.
In 1993, Dr. Smith was honored as the American Heart Association's Physician of the Year. In 1996, Dr. Smith received the Distinguished National Leadership Award from the American Heart Association. In June of 2000, he received the Gold Heart Award from the American Heart Association. In 2003 he received the Eugene Drake Award for his contributions to cardiovascular medicine. Yearly since 1998, he has been elected to Best Doctors in America. Dr. Smith was honored by NHLBI with an award of special recognition in 2003.
Disclosure Statement
Speaker/consultant: Sanofi-Aventis, Bayer
Consultant: Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline
Monitoring Board: AstraZeneca
