Contact Information
Education
Postdoctoral fellowship, Indiana University
PhD, University of Michigan
Predoctoral fellowship, University of Michigan
BSN, University of Michigan
Research Areas
Quality of Life & Chronic Condition Management
Biography
Dr. Smith is an assistant professor at Indiana University School of Nursing. Dr. Smith received his BSN in 2016 and his PhD in 2020, both from the University of Michigan. His PhD was funded by a predoctoral fellowship from the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation. His dissertation conducted prospective modelling to identify modifiable predictors of sexual function in cardiac disease. His dissertation chair was Dr. Debra Barton. He also worked as an RN at the bedside during all four years of his PhD program on a general medicine unit at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers.
Dr. Smith completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research at Indiana University in June of 2022. His research focus is pain management in chronic heart failure. He has received grants from Sigma Theta Tau International and the Hillman Foundation to characterize pain using both emergency medical services data and through omics methodologies. His long-term research goals are to create novel pain self-management interventions for patients suffering from heart failure through a deep phenotyping approach to better understand the pathophysiology of pain mechanisms. A passionate advocate for quality nursing education, particularly PhD mentorship, he also received his Certificate in Nursing Education, and spearheaded development of a survey to quantify PhD mentorship quality, which is currently being tested across all PhD programs at the University of Michigan.
External Funding
2020-2022. "Phenotyping the Pain of Heart Failure: Characterization, Predictors, and Outcomes." (PI). Sigma Theta Tau International Alpha Chapter, $5,400.
2021-2023. "Do Differences in Gene Expression by mRNA Explain Pain Presence Among Patients with Heart Failure?" (PI). $4,379