Department of Medicine

Cardiovascular Medicine Faculty

Karen M. Smith, MD, FACC Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program Co-Director, Cardiac Care unit, Shands Hospital, University of Florida smithkm@medicine.ufl.edu 1600 SW Archer Road/Box 100277 Gainesville, FL 32610-0277 352 293 0092/FAX 352 392 3880

Dr. Smith is from Mars Hill, North Carolina where she graduated from Mars Hill College. She completed medical school, internal medicine residency, cardiology fellowship and interventional cardiology fellowship training at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her major interests include rotational atherectomy, intracoronary ultrasound, new devices in interventional cardiology, restenosis, critical care cardiology, and alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

Training:

Academic Interests:

Dr. Karen Smith is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program, Co-director, Cardiac Care Unit, Shands Hospital UF. Dr. Smith is from Mars Hill, North Carolina where she graduated from Mars Hill College. She completed medical school, internal medicine residency, cardiology fellowship and interventional cardiology fellowship training at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her major interests include rotational atherectomy, intracoronary ultrasound, new devices in interventional cardiology, restenosis, critical care cardiology, and alcohol ablation procedure for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. She serves on the Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention, Imaging, and Ethics Committees of the American College of Cardiology, Cardiac Catheterization Task Force, Education Committee, and Council of the Florida Chapter of the ACC, and the Training Directors’ Committee and Intervention Committee of the Society for Cardiac Angiographers and Interventionalists.

Clinical Interests:

Clinical interventional cardiology, Alcohol Septal Ablation procedure for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and critical care cardiology and new devices in interventional.

Representative Publications:

1. Khuddus MA, Sizemore BC, Pepine CJ, Bairey Merz CN, Sopko G, Handberg EM, McGorray SP, Smith KM, Sharaf BL, Nissen SE, vonMering GO. Positive coronary artery remodeling in women with no or minimal angiographic disease:Intravascular ultrasound findings from the NHLBI-sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evalutation (WISE) study. J Am Coll Cardiol 47(4):331A, 2006.
2. Khuddus MA, Sizemore BC, Pepine CJ, Bairey Merz CN, Sopko G, Handberg EM, McGorray SP, Smith KM, Sharaf BL, Nissen SE, vonMering GO. Coronary atherosclerosis by intravascular ultrasound in women with suspected myocardial ischemia, but no or minimal angiographic disease: A report from the NHLBI-sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) study. J Am Coll Cardiol 47(4):329A, 2006.
3. Smith K, Williams K*, Hess P. Cardiac Mass Diagnosed by Angiography During Coronary Intervention. 2005; In Press.
4. Arant CB, Wessel TR, Olson MB, Reis SE, Marroquin O, Bairey Merz CN, Sopko G, Rogers WJ, Sharaf BL, Smith KM, Mankad S, Johnson BD, Handberg E, Pepine CJ. The WISE Investigators. Serum inflammatory markers correlate with hemoglobin levels in women undergoing evaluation for suspected ischemia: Results from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute WISE Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43(5):515A.
5. Wessel TR, Arant CV, McGorray SP, Bairey Merz CN, Sopko G, Rogers WJ, Sharaf BL, Reis SE, Smith KM, Mankad S, Olson M, Johnson BD, Handberg E, Pepine CJ. The WISE Investigators. Coronary Vascular Dysfunction is only Partially Predicted by Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Fasctors in Women Undergoing Evaulation for Suspected Ischemia: Results From the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute WISE Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;43(5):484A.