Robert Pease Smith, Jr, M.D., M.P.H

Department of Medicine
Director of Infectious Disease Fellowship
Director of the HIV Consult Service (Virology Treatment Center)
Maine Medical Center
22 Bramhall Street
Portland, Maine  04102
(207)662-2099 Office
(207)662-6116 Fax
smithr@mmc.org

Biosketch

Dr. Smith received his medical degree from John Hopkins Medical School in 1975 and came to Maine Medical Center in 1987 as a staff physician.  He is currently Program Director of Infectious Disease Fellowship, Director of the HIV Consult Service at Maine Medical Center, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and past President of Northern New England Infectious Disease Society.  He is Chair of the Board of Directors, New England Chapter, American Academy for HIV Medicine.  He is a member of Maine State Advisory Committee on Tuberculosis and Maine State Working Group on Vector-Bourne Disease.  He has earned honors in public health and clinical teaching.

Research Interests

Dr. Smith’s research interests include vector borne diseases such as Lyme disease and other tickborne infections, West Nile Virus and molecular epidemiology and ecology of these diseases and assessment of prevention strategies including vaccination.  He has received multiple research grants from the Center for Disease Control.  Dr Smith has also served as Primary Investigator and Co-Investigator in several industry sponsored clinical trials of HIV treatment regimens.

Selected Publications

Books:

Smith RP, Sears S: Travel Medicine (Essentials of primary Care series).  Blackwell Science, 2002

Book Chapters:

Smith RP:  Tickborne Infections.  In: Medical Management of Infectious Disease.  Chris Grace, editor.  Marcel Dekker Inc., 2003.

Kozarsky P, Smith RP:  Health advice for travel.  In: Office Practice of Medicine.  4th Edition.  W.B. Saunders (Ed.): Philadelphia, 2003

Journal Articles and Proceedings:

Rand PW, Lacombe EH, Holman MS, Lubekcsyk C, Smith RP: Attempt to control ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) deer on an isolated island using ivermectin-treated corn.  Journal Med Entomol, 37:126-133, 2000

Smith, RP, Article Consultant: Lyme disease: The debate continues.  Patient Care, pp. 66-75, 2001

Smith RP, Schoen RT, Sikand DW, Nowakowski J, Parenti DM, Holman M, Persing D, Steere AS:  Clinical characteristics and treatment outcome of early Lyme disease with microbiologically confirmed erythema migrans.  Ann Internal Medicine, 136:421-428, 2002

Smith RP, Steere AC: Reply to Letters.  Ann Intern Med, 2002.

Vannorsdall MD, Thomas S, Smith RP, Zimmerman R, Christman R, Vella J:  Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in a renal allograt recipient:  Review of the clinical spectrum of disease in solid organ transplant patients.  Transplant Infectious Diseases, 4:1-5, 2002.

Goethert HK, Lubelczyk C, Lacombe EH, Holman MS, Rand PW, Smith RP, Telford SR.  Enzootic Babesia in Maine.  J. Parasitol 2003; 89(5): 1069-1071

Holman M, Goldberg J, Caporale DA, Lacombe EH, Lubelczyk C, Rand PW, Smith RP.  Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis, southern coastal Maine.  Emerging Inf Diseases, 2004; 10:744-746.