Edwin Ide Smith

Background

Smith, Edwin Ide was born on May 13, 1924 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Carroll and Lila (Ide) Smith.

Education

Student, Harvard College, 1942-1944; student, Georgetown University, 1944-1946; Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1948.

Career

Intern, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1948-1949; Halsted fellow in surgery, Johns Hopkins School Medicine, Baltimore, 1949-1950; resident, Boston Children's Hospital, 1950, 52-53, 55-56; resident, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, 1953-1955; private practice pediatric surgery, Norfolk, Virginia, 1956-1963; associate professor surgery, U. Missouri College Medicine, Kansas City, 1963-1968; associate professor surgery, U. Oklahoma College Medicine, Oklahoma City, 1968-1971; professor surgery, U. Oklahoma College Medicine, 1971-1989; professor surgery, University Texas S.W. Medical Center, Dallas, 1989-1994; emeritus professor, University Texas S.W. Medical Center, Dallas, since 1994; medical educator emeritus, since 1994. Surgeon-in-chief Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas, 1963-1968;chief pediatric surgery Children's Hospital Oklahoma City, 1968-1987, University Texas S.W. Medical Center, Dallas, 1989-1992.

Achievements

• Edwin Ide Smith has been listed as a noteworthy Medical educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member hospital care commission American Academy Pediatrics, 1973-1979, chairman surgical section, 1996-1997. Member select committee medical technical Oklahoma Health Planning Commission, 1981-1985. Trustee Central Oklahoma Ambulance Trust, Oklahoma City, 1976-1980.

Member American Burn Association, American College of Surgeons, American Pediatric Surgery Association, American Surgical Association, Society Surgical Oncology, Southern Surgical Association.

Interests

• Avocations: tennis, traveling.

Connections

Married Matilda Janet Snelling, March 31, 1951. Children: Sarah Pinckney Smith Crotty, Susan Ide Smith Thurmond, Charles Carroll III.

Father:

Charles Carroll Smith

Mother:

Lila (Ide) Smith

Spouse:

Matilda Janet Snelling

child:

Charles Carroll III Smith

child:

Susan Ide Smith Thurmond Smith

child:

Sarah Pinckney Smith Crotty Smith