Michael Smith, MD
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Awards

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• K12HD105250 Child Health Research Career Development Award, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2025-2027
• Early Career Investigator Award in Pulmonary Vascular Disease, American Thoracic Society, 2025-2026
• Hazel Nelson PPHNet Research Grant, Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network, 2025-2026
• T32HL160508 Multidisciplinary Research Training in Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, 2022-2024

Education & Training

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• Pediatric Critical Care University of California, San Francisco 06/2024
• Pediatrics University of California, San Francisco 06/2020
• MD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 05/2017

Publications (13)

Top publication keywords:
Ventricular RemodelingVentricular Function, RightMyocytes, CardiacNoninvasive VentilationGene Expression ProfilingHeart VentriclesIntensive Care Units, PediatricHeart Defects, CongenitalHypertrophy, Right VentricularProfessional-Family RelationsCystic FibrosisBronchopulmonary DysplasiaRespiratory InsufficiencyMicrovesselsHypertension, Pulmonary

• Pulmonary Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction Is Induced by Nonpulsatile Pulmonary Blood Flow in an Ovine Classic Glenn Model.
  Comprehensive Physiology 2025 Hyde J, Smith MA, Swami N, Hwang JH, Chao Y, Boehme J, Raff GW, Nilsson CN, Gong W, Deutsch GH, Johnson EG, Wang T, Black SM, Datar SA, Maltepe E, Fineman JR
• Microvascular preservation and cardiomyocyte hyperplasia underlie adaptive right ventricle development in congenital heart disease-pulmonary arterial hypertension.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2025 Smith MA, Guardado ES, Boehme J, Datar SA, Maltepe E, Swami N, Raff GW, Bodansky A, Chelladurai P, Moreno J, Prince AR, Powers N, Huang GN, de Jesus Perez V, Fineman JR
• Anxiety and Depression Screening of Youth in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic: A Multi-Center, Cross-Sectional Study.
  Pulmonary circulation 2025 Parker C, Whalen E, Smith MA, Becerra J, Stevens L, Avitabile CM, Brown A, Cash M, Jackson EO, McSweeney J, Miller-Reed K, Reyes JT, Sheppard C, Mullen MP, Pulmonary Hypertension Network (PPHNet)
• Mechanotransductive stabilization of HIF-1α is inhibited by mitochondrial antioxidant therapy in the setting of pulmonary overcirculation.
  Scientific reports 2025 Boehme JT, Datar SA, Sun X, Gong W, Lu Q, Soto J, Smith MA, Garcia-Flores AE, Raff GW, Wang T, Maltepe E, Black SM, Fineman JR
• New Insights Into Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension From Bogota: Is Younger Always Better?
  Pulmonary circulation 2025 Smith MA, Fineman JR

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• MicroRNA in pediatric pulmonary hypertension microRNA profiling to inform disease classification, severity, and treatment response in pediatric pulmonary hypertension.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2024 Smith MA, Chiacchia S, Boehme J, Datar SA, Morell E, Keller RL, Romer A, Colglazier E, Parker C, Becerra J, Fineman JR
• Epidemiology of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients.
  Transplantation and cellular therapy 2024 Cheng G, Smith MA, Phelan R, Brazauskas R, Strom J, Ahn KW, Hamilton B, Peterson A, Savani B, Schoemans H, Schoettler M, Sorror M, Higham C, Kharbanda S, Dvorak CC, Zinter MS
• Pulmonary hypertension in the intensive care unit after pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant: incidence, risk factors, and outcomes.
  Frontiers in oncology 2024 Smith MA, Cheng G, Phelan R, Brazauskas R, Strom J, Ahn KW, Hamilton BK, Peterson A, Savani B, Schoemans H, Schoettler ML, Sorror M, Keller RL, Higham CS, Dvorak CC, Fineman JR, Zinter MS
• OMX: A NOVEL OXYGEN DELIVERY BIOTHERAPEUTIC IMPROVES OUTCOMES IN AN OVINE MODEL OF CONTROLLED HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK.
  Shock (Augusta, Ga.) 2024 Maltepe E, Smith M, Boehme J, Datar SA, Hutchings RS, Vento CA, Manzoor H, Loucks A, Winger JA, Fineman JR
• Sociodemographic factors associated with tracheostomy and mortality in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  Pediatric pulmonology 2023 Smith MA, Steurer MA, Mahendra M, Zinter MS, Keller RL
• Changes in the Use of Invasive and Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Pediatric Asthma: 2009-2019.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2023 Smith MA, Dinh D, Ly NP, Ward SL, McGarry ME, Zinter MS
• Outcomes of Children With Cystic Fibrosis Admitted to PICUs.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2020 Smith MA, McGarry ME, Ly NP, Zinter MS
• A Descriptive Study of Decision-Making Conversations during Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Family Conferences.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2018 Smith MA, Clayman ML, Frader J, Arenson M, Haber-Barker N, Ryan C, Emanuel L, Michelson K