Stephanie Smith

Area of Study / Keywords

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About

Personal Statement:

One of my areas of interest within infectious diseases is the surveillance and prevention of  hospital acquired infections, especially those due to antibiotic-resistant pathogens. These pathogens rarely pose a threat to healthy people but for hospitalized patients or frail people in nursing homes, they can be life-threatening. An important focus for the graduate and resident education programs in adult infectious diseases that I manage is infection prevention and control in hospitals and other clinical settings to prevent transmission of pathogens.  

Dr. Stephanie Smith completed her MD at Dalhousie University in Halifax before moving to Edmonton for internal medicine and infectious disease residencies. She went on to complete a Master of Science degree in clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto before returning to the University of Alberta in 2007. She was appointed associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2013 and Professor in 2019. 

Leadership and Collaborations:

Dr. Smith is director of hospital infection prevention and control at the University of Alberta Hospital and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. She provides consultation in infection prevention and control to the Cross Cancer Institute. She is also medical lead for infection prevention and control for the Edmonton Zone. Within the Department of Medicine, she served as program director from 2010-2018. She is currently the education coordinator for rotating medical students and residents in infectious diseases. 

Dr. Smith is active on several grant review and advisory committees including her roles as infectious diseases advisor on the University of Alberta’s Emergency Response Committee, member of the Infection Prevention and Control Advisory Committee for the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is also Co-chair of the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, a surveillance network of 65 hospitals across Canada coordinated by the Public Health Agency of Canada. She has been involved with several University of Alberta committees including her current membership on the Postgraduate Medical Education Committee, the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee and the Academic Review Board.

Clinical Interests

Dr. Smith provides inpatient and outpatient consultation for infectious diseases problems at the University of Alberta Hospital and Mazankowski Heart Institute. 

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Research

Dr. Smith is involved in many clinical research projects looking at the prevalence and impact of hospital acquired infections. She is also a local PI on several clinical trials investigating therapies for common infectious diseases such as Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, COVID-19 and Hepatitis C. She has authored and co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed papers and abstracts in such journals as International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Chest, American Journal of Infection Control and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

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Teaching

As part of Dr. Smith’s management of the postgraduate adult infectious diseases training program, she mentors and supervises numerous trainees at the graduate, post-graduate and fellowship level. She provides classroom instruction in the undergraduate medical program, clinical instruction to residents in several specialty areas in addition to infectious diseases, and continuing medical education sessions to colleagues. She received the Teacher of the Year award in 2016 from the 4th year subspecialty residents.

Johnson T.J., Nishida R.T., Sonpar A.P., Lin Y.C.J., Watson K.A., Smith S.W., Conly J.M., Evans D.H., Olfert J.S.

Scientific Reports. 2022 December; 12 (1) 10.1038/s41598-022-07301-5

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Andrew M.K., Godin J., LeBlanc J., Boivin G., Valiquette L., McGeer A., McElhaney J.E., Hatchette T.F., ElSherif M., MacKinnon-Cameron D., Wilson K., Ambrose A., Trottier S., Loeb M., Smith S.W., Katz K., McCarthy A., McNeil S.A.

Canadian Geriatrics Journal. 2022 June; 25 (2):183-196 10.5770/CGJ.25.546

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Liang J.J., Rudnick W., Mitchell R., Brooks J., Bush K., Conly J., Ellison J., Frenette C., Johnston L., Lavallée C., McGeer A., Mertz D., Pelude L., Science M., Simor A., Smith S., Stagg P., Suh K.N., Thampi N., Thirion D.J.G., Vayalumkal J., Wong A., Taylor G.

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2022 May; 10.1017/ice.2021.519

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Chen J.Z., Hoang H.L., Yaskina M., Kabbani D., Doucette K.E., Smith S.W., Lau C., Stewart J., Zurek K., Schultz M., Cervera C.

PLoS ONE. 2022 March; 17 (3 March) 10.1371/journal.pone.0265493

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Ali K., Azher T., Baqi M., Binnie A., Borgia S., Carrier F.M., Cavayas Y.A., Chagnon N., Cheng M.P., Conly J., Costiniuk C., Daley P., Daneman N., Douglas J., Downey C., Duan E., Duceppe E., Durand M., English S., Farjou G., Fera E., Fontela P., Fowler R., Fralick M., Geagea A., Grant J., Harrison L.B., Havey T., Hoang H., Kelly L.E., Keynan Y., Khwaja K., Klein G., Klein M., Kolan C., Kronfli N., Lamontagne F., Lau M., Lee T.C., Lee N., Lim R., Longo S., Lostun A., MacIntyre E., Malhamé I., Mangof K., McGuinty M., Mergler S., Munan M.P., Murthy S., O’Neil C., Ovakim D., Papenburg J., Parhar K., Parvathy S.N., Patel C., Perez-Patrigeon S., Pinto R., Rajakumaran S., Rishu A., Roba-Oshin M., Rushton M., Saleem M., Salvadori M., Scherr K., Schwartz K., Semret M., Silverman M., Singh A., Sligl W., Smith S., Somayaji R., Tan D.H.S., Tobin S., Todd M., Tran T.V., Tremblay A., Tsang J., Turgeon A., Vakil E., Weatherald J., Yansouni C., Zarychanski R., Antuna-Puente B., Arhanchiague E., Arlotto P., Aslam Z., Auld F., Bellemare D., Bogoch I., Chaubey V., Cloutier È., Connora W., Costerousse O., DiDiodato G., Fell C., Gamble G., Giilck S., Ginocchio G., Go S., Graham C., Gupta K., Guy B., Heendeniya A., John S., Kandel C., Ladelfa A., Lellouche F., Mah A., Mandelzweig K., Manocha S., Marek C., Marticonrena R.M., Matte S., Messier-Peet M., Mitchell P., Owen E., Parfitt E., Patterson L., Peermohamed S., Poirier G., Poutanen S.M., Powis J., Press N., Sales V., Taylor M.

CMAJ. 2022 February; 194 (7):E242-E251 10.1503/CMAJ.211698

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Liang J.J., Rudnick W., Mitchell R., Brooks J., Bush K., Conly J., Ellison J., Frenette C., Johnston L., Lavallée C., McGeer A., Mertz D., Pelude L., Science M., Simor A., Smith S., Stagg P., Suh K.N., Thampi N., Thirion D.J.G., Vayalumkal J., Wong A., Taylor G.

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2022 January; (3):1-7 10.1017/ice.2021.519

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Johnston B.L., Ogunremi T., Defalco K., Savard N., Smith S.W.

Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. 2022 January; 6 (S1):205-228 10.1080/24745332.2022.2043677

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Kleinman D.R., Mitchell R., McCracken M., Hota S.S., Golding G.R., Smith S.W.

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2022 January; 10.1017/ice.2022.7

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McFarlane AC, Kabbani D, Bakal JA, Smith SW.

Transplant Infectious Diseases. 2021 December; 10.1111/tid.13747.

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JAMMI: Official Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada. 2021 April;

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Nelson Lee, Stephanie Smith, Nathan Zelyas, Scott Klarenbach, Lori Zapernick, Christian Bekking, Helen So, Lily Yip, Graham Tipples, Geoff Taylor, Samira Mubareka

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 2021 March; 193 10.1503/cmaj.201748

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Christopher Picard, Meghan Edlund, Candice Keddie, Leyla Asadi, Domhnall O’Dochartaigh, Richard Drew, Matthew Douma, Conar O’Neil, Stephanie Smith, Jamil Kanji.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL. 2021 March; 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.03.011

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Infectious Diseases Society of America Annual Meeting . 2020 October;

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Schwartz I.S., Friedman D.Z.P., Zapernick L., Dingle T.C., Lee N., Sligl W., Zelyas N., Smith S.W.

CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2020 October; 71 (7):1760-1763 10.1093/cid/ciaa007