Kendra M. Smith, MD

On staff since February 2001

Children's Title: Member Extracorporeal Life Support Steering Committee, Co-Medical Director Seattle Children's ICU Transport Team

Academic Title: Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Research Center: Center for Developmental Therapeutics

Dr. Smith’s focus in research historically has been in lung injury prevention in the preterm and term neonate. She has studied ventilator techniques and different ventilation support modalities and currently is working clinically on strategies to minimize lung trauma in infants requiring ventilation due to respiratory failure at birth in very sick preterm and term infants and particularly in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Because of this interest she serves as the Manager of Divisional Respiratory Care Programs with the goal of promoting improved ventilation strategies for neonates requiring ventilatory support in our region. Dr. Smith also is involved in the extracorporeal life support (ECLS) program for neonates and serves on the ECLS Steering Committee, which focuses on improving techniques to maximally support newborn infants with severe respiratory failure not responsive to conventional ventilatory therapies. Dr. Smith is co-Medical Director of the Children’s Ground Transport Team and serves as an advisor for Airlift Northwest’s neonatal transports.

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ErinMissoula, MT12.02.10

My husband and I strongly recommend Dr. Smith as an incredibly knowledgable, compassionate doctor. We truly felt that Dr. Smith was treating our daughter as if she were her own daughter. Thank you so much.

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Overview
Awards and Honors
Publications

Overview

Board Certification(s): Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Medical/Professional School: University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
Residency: Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
Fellowship: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
Clinical Interests: Potential effects of narcotics and sedatives on the developing brain, Family centered care, Parent brochures reviewing information on problems infants can have in the newborn period

Awards and Honors

Award Name	Award Description	Awarded By	Award Date
	Academic Enrichment Fund Award	Seattle Children's Hospital	Sept. 1, 2010

Publications

Surfactant and partial liquid ventilation via conventional and high-frequency techniques in an animal model of respiratory distress syndrome.
Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies , 2000 Jul: 72-78

Primary Office

Seattle Children's

M-112 - NICU Administration
4800 Sand Point Way NE

Seattle, WA 98105

206-987-2675

Additional Offices

University of Washington

UW Box 356320 - Neonatology
1959 NE Pacific St

Seattle, WA 98195-6320

206-543-3200

Providence Regional Medical Center - Everett

NICU - 2nd Floor
PO Box 1067

Everett, WA 98026

425-304-6040

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