National Study Center Trauma & EMS
701 W Pratt St
5th floor
Baltimore, MD
USA 21201
Email: gssmith@som.umaryland.edu
Disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Gordon S Smith MD, MPH is a Professor of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and a core faculty member of the National Study Center for Trauma &EMS. He has a medical degree (MB,ChB –MD equivalent) from Otago University, New Zealand, and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a New Zealand citizen and a permanent resident in the USA, based in Baltimore. His areas of expertise include injury epidemiology, occupational injury research, alcohol research, and injury surveillance systems. He has a long history of funded research including from NIH, CDC, and the Department of Defense (CDMRP)
He has done extensive work in the alcohol and injury area, both nationally and internationally, and has published more than 145 peer-reviewed articles, as well as a book, Injury Prevention: An International Perspective. An internationally renowned scientist, he has received widespread recognition for his methodological expertise in injury research, especially in the development of injury methods to study alcohol, occupational, and traffic injuries. He is an expert in injury surveillance systems and the use of databases for injury research. In addition he has a long history of working as part of interdisciplinary research teams including those with engineers (including civil engineering and biomechanics), ergonomists, biomechanics, clinicians and social scientists. He has worked and taught in a number of different countries over the years including Papua New Guinea, Suriname, Trinidad, Jamaica, South Africa, Russia, New Zealand and Australia. His current research interests include: use of injury community surveys in both developed and developing countries; injury studies in trauma centers and injury hospitalizations; medical examiner systems to document injuries(including studies in Russia of alcohol and drugs); drowning epidemiology; injury risk from alcohol and drugs including case-control studies and case-crossover studies; preventable death studies; and occupational injury surveillance.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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