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Professor Smith. is a Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, at Our
Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, and is Professor of
Haematology at Trinity College Dublin. He has an active research group
based in the Institute of Molecular Medicine working on the molecular
and cellular basis of the inflammatory-coagulation interface in human
disease. Other active research areas of interest include;
childhood leukaemia and bone marrow failure syndromes.
The
co-author of more than 270 research articles, letters, abstracts,
books, book chapters and papers, Prof. Smith is a Fellow of the Royal
College of Pathologists, the Royal College of Physicians of Dublin,
London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Royal College of Paediatrics and
Child Health, and is a member of numerous associations and societies,
including, the Medical Research Council Childhood Leukaemia Working
Party, The International Berlin Frankfurt Munster Study Group for
Childhood Leukaemia, The United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Directors
Organisation, the European Paediatric Network for Haemophilia
Management, the United Kingdom Children's Cancer Group, the Paediatric
Haematology Forum of the British Society of Haematology, and the
European Paediatric Network for Severe Congenital Neutropenia.
He
was awarded the Graves Medal by the Royal Academy of Medicine and
Health Research Board in 2001 for his research into the pathobiology
and novel therapeutic strategies in severe sepsis that had received
international acclaim. In 2006, Professor Smith was awarded the St
Luke's Medal by the Royal Academy of Medicine and St Luke's Hospital
for his work on improving outcomes in adolescent cancers with specific
reference to the leukaemia's
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