- Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Guidant CRM

Research Foci:

Dr. Smithís research interests focus on cardiac electrophysiology with a special interest in catheter ablation, atrial fibrillation and quantitative analytical techniques in biomedical signal processing.

Career Highlights:

Dr. Smith holds a BS in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, an MD degree from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and a PhD in medical engineering and medical physics from HST. He completed his medical internship and residency and his cardiology and clinical electrophysiology training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Krannert Institute of Cardiology in Indianapolis and Washington University in St. Louis. He has held faculty positions at the School of Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

Before joining Guidant, Dr. Smith was also director of the Arrhythmia Institute and Research Director of the Cardiovascular Group, both in Fairfax, VA.