PABI Plan - The Sarah Jane Brain Project

PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Jodi L. Smith, Ph.D., M.D.
Neurological Surgery
RI 1134
O: 274‐8852 FAX: 274‐8895
Assistant: Velda Green
jodlsmit@iupui.edu
vcgreen@iupui.edu
Dr. Smith is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for
Children and Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at
Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received her Ph.D. in
Anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine for her dissertation studies on
“Neurulation.” She subsequently completed medical school and residency training in
Neurological Surgery at the University of Utah, as well. Following residency, she completed the
Shillito Fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in
Boston, Massachusetts. Clinical interests include pediatric epilepsy surgery, brain and spinal
cord tumors, brain and spinal cord congenital malformations, traumatic brain and spinal cord
injury, hydrocephalus, myelodsyplasia, craniofacial disorders, and Moyamoya syndrome. She is
currently engaged in research studies on the Electrophysiological Analysis of Epileptogenic
Tissue.
NAME: Smith, Jodi L.
EDUCATION:
CURRICULUM VITAE ‐ Abbreviated
UNDERGRADUATE: Weber State College – Ogden, UT
B.S. (Summa cum Laude) – Zoology/Chemistry
1979‐1983
GRADUATE: University of Utah School of Medicine – Salt Lake City, UT
Ph.D. – Department of Anatomy
1983‐1988
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: “Role of Neuroepithelial Cell
Wedging in Bending of the Chick Neural Plate”
University of Utah School of Medicine – Salt Lake City, UT
M.D. (A.O.A., 1992)
1989‐1993 (graduated #1 in class of 108 students)
POSTDOCTORAL: University of Utah School of Medicine ‐ Salt Lake City, UT
Postdoctoral Fellowship – Department of Anatomy
1988‐1989
University of Utah School of Medicine ‐ Salt Lake City, UT
Internship ‐ Department of Surgery
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