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PROFILE

CERTIFICATION:

  • Diplomat American Board of Internal Medicine (2004)
  • Diplomat American Board of Internal Medicine: Cardiovascular Disease (2007)  
  • Diplomat American Board of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (2012)

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Clinical Teacher (2009-2010)
  • Internal Medicine and Transitional Year Residency Programs
  • Baptist Health Systems, Birmingham, Alabama
  • NIH Summer Research Award (1998)
  • Summa Cum Laude (1997)
  • Honors in Biology Research (1997)
  • The National Dean’s List (1996 and 1997)
  • President’s List (1994-1997)
  • Angelo J. Bruno Scholarship (1996)
  • Golden Key National Honor Society (1995)
  • National Collegiate Natural Sciences Award Winner (1996 and 1997)
  • Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges (1996) 

 

 

EDUCATION

EDUCATION:

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bachelor of Science (1997)
Major:  Biology
Minor:  Chemistry
GPA:  4.0 

POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION:

Cardiac Rhythm Management Lab Research Associate (University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1998)

UAB Emergency Room Volunteer (1995)

MEMBERSHIPS & APPOINTMENTS:

  • Medical Association of the State of Alabama
  • Big Ten Cardiovascular Fellows Summit Course Director (2006)
  • Big Ten Cardiovascular Fellows Summit Planning Committee Member (2007)
  • American College of Cardiology
  • Heart Rhythm Society
  • American Society of Echocardiography
  • AMA
  • American College of Physicians
  • Alpha Epsilon Delta Reporter

Acknowledgements:

Holman WL. Goldberg SP. Early LJ. McGiffin DC. Kirklin JK. Cho DH.  Pacifico AD. Right thoracotomy for mitral reoperation: analysis of technique and outcome. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 70(6):1970-3, 2000 Dec. 

Grants

NIH Short-Term Training Grant #T35HL07473 (Controlled Postcardioplegia

Reperfusion: Mechanism for Attenuation of Reperfusion Injury: 1998) 

Presentations

  • Course Faculty: State of the Art Indications for Lead Extractions.  Annual HRS Scientific Sessions, Boston, MA, May 2009
  • Course Faculty: Sudden Death in Young Athletes: Prevention & Treatment,
  • First Annual Sports Cardiology Symposium, OSU, 7/06
  • T wave alternans debate, OSU Cardiology Grand Rounds, February 2007
  • “Arrhythmias in AMI,” OSU Cardiology Grand Rounds, September 2006
  • “Accessory Pathways,” OSU Cardiology Grand Rounds, June, 2006
  • “T-wave alternans testing,” Mary Rutan Hospital, Ohio, May, 2006
  • “Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy,” VA Hospital, Chillicothe, Ohio, March, 2006
  • “Right Atrial Myxoma,” OSU Cardiology/Surgery Conference, November, 2005
  • “Tilt Table Testing & Cardioversions,” OSU Cardiology, September, 2005
  • “Sudden Cardiac Death & ICDs,” OSU Cardiology Grand Rounds, May, 2005
  • “Doppler and Hemodynamics,” OSU Echocardiography Conference, March, 2005
  • “Constrictive Pericarditis,” OSU Cardiology/Surgery Conference, October, 2004
  • “Vascular Inflammation,” University of Alabama at Birmingham, September, 2003

  • Smith M, Skinner J, Digerness S, Ideker R, Holman W. “Controlled

  • Postcardioplegia Reperfusion: Mechanism for Attenuation of Reperfusion Injury” to the University of Alabama School of Medicine Student Research Committee, Birmingham, Alabama, November, 1998.

  • Smith M, and Wibbels T.  “Cloning of DAX-1, A Novel Gene in Female Sexual Differentiation” to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Honors Committee, Birmingham, Alabama, April, 1997. 

 

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