Dr Smith

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Howard Smith

Dr Howard Smith, MD, FACP is the Academic Director of Pain Management - Department of Anesthesiology - Albany Medical College, Albany, New York. He has also served on the Pain Medicine faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. He is also the Assistant Director of Clinical Research at the Pharmaceutical research Institute; Albany College of Pharmacy; Albany, New York.

Dr. Smith has contributed questions and served as an initial committee member of the joint Pain Management Examination Committee of the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA), American Board of Physical Medical and Rehabilitation (ABPMR), and American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).

Dr. Smith is board certified in Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, and Anesthesiology as well as having certification in Pain Management by both the American Board of Anesthesiology and the American Board of Pain Medicine. He is also certified in Palliative Medicine by the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine as well as in Addiction Medicine by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and has lectured at numerous national and international society meetings.

Dr. Smith received the Leonard Bushnell Pain Award for Teaching Excellence in Pain Management Fellowship in 2001 from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of the Harvard Medical School. He has served as an expert reviewer for a number of publications including the journals, Pain, Pain Medicine, Current Pharmaceutical Design, Neuroscience Letters, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, Neuromodulation, Journal of Cellular Physiology, and Spine. He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Pain Physician, The Journal of Neuropathic Pain and Symptom Palliation, The Journal of Cancer Pain and Symptom Palliation and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. Dr. Smith has authored numerous articles and book chapters, as well as multiple books.