Background
Smith, Gerard Peter was born on March 24, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Stanley Alward and Agnes Marie (McLarney) Smith.
Smith, Gerard Peter was born on March 24, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Stanley Alward and Agnes Marie (McLarney) Smith.
Bachelor of Science, St. Joseph's U., Philadelphia, 1956; Doctor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1960.
Intern, resident, New York Hospital, 1960-1962;
assistant professor physiology, University of Pennsylvania School Medicine, Philadelphia, 1964-1968;
from assistant to associate professor, Cornell Univercity, New York City, since 1968;
professor psychiatry (behavioral neuroscience), Cornell Univercity, New York City, since 1973. Visiting professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973-1974, Rockefeller U., 1979-1980. Adjunct Professor, 1982-1986.
Consultant National Institutes of Health. Curt Richter lecturer Johns Hopkins University, 1976. Leon lecturer University of Pennsylvania, 1990, Stellar lecturer University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Rushton lecturer Florida State University, 1992, Merck, Sharpe, and Dohm professor neuroscience U. Flinder, Australia, 1992. Loucks lecturer U. Washington, 1995. Director Eating Disorders Institute, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 1984-1988.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physiological Society, Society for Neurosci., American Association for Research.in Nervous and Mental Disease, Endocrine Society, Society for Study Ingestive Behavior (president), International Behavioral Neurosci. Society (president), Alpha Omega Alpha, Alpha Sigma Nu.
Married Barbara McInnis, May 12, 1962. Children: Christopher, Mark, Hilary, Maura.