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Palliative care director named
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Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith, MD, has been named director of palliative care for Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Hopkins’ Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Smith previously served as medical director of the Thomas Palliative Care Program and as co-director of the Massey Cancer Center Cancer Control and Prevention Program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
“Dr. Smith is one of the foremost leaders in the field of palliative care,” Edward Miller, MD, dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said in a press release. “His broad range of expertise in issues related to patients across the medical spectrum needing palliative care and his outstanding research and clinical care in the oncology setting will set apart our institution’s palliative care program.”
Smith received his bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Akron and his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also was a special fellow in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute.