Vanderbilt University
Joseph A Smith, Jr. is William L. Bray Professor in the Department of Urology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He served as Chairman of the department from 1991 to 2015. He is an AOA graduate of the University of Tennessee Medical School and was chosen the Outstanding Graduate. He performed his surgery residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, his urology residency at the University of Utah, and a fellowship in urologic oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Dr. Smith has served as President of the American Board of Urology, President of the Society of Urologic Oncology, President of the Southeastern Section of the American Urologic Association, and Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for Urology. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award and the Hugh Hampton Young Award from the American Urologic Association, the SUO Achievement Medal and the Huggins Medal from the Society of Urologic Oncology, the St. Paul Medal from the British Association of Urologic Surgeons, the Albert Schweitzer Medal from the Societe Internationale d’Urologie, the Valentine Medal from the New York Academy of Medicine and the prestigious Spence Medal by the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. He was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Smith is Editor of the Journal of Urology, the most widely read and highly cited journal in the specialty.
He has published over 300 peer reviewed manuscripts, over 100 book chapters, and has edited or co-edited eight textbooks including the third and fourth editions of Hinman’s Atlas of Urologic Surgery. His professional focus has been on innovative treatment strategies for patients with urologic cancers and introduction and evaluation of technologic advances in urologic surgery. He has performed over 1,000 radical cystectomies and 10,000 radical prostatectomies.
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Saturday, April 29, 2023
1:51 PM – 2:09 PM CST