Sarah Smith

American Board of Internal Medicine

• Osler Society Student Mentor: Organized social and community-service events to build camaraderie within the School of Medicine. Advised 1st and 2nd year students in the Werner Forssmann Society. (2016-2019)
• Welcome Weekend Community Round Table: Offered guidance to incoming medical students as a panel member in the Community Round Table breakout session. (2016)
• Lecture Curriculum Focus Group: Represented the Class of 2019 in a focus group organized by the Office of Educational Development. Discussed strategies to improve lecture attendance. (2016)
• POM 1 Otolaryngology Workshop: Facilitated the larynx station at the annual Practice of Medicine 1 Otolaryngology Workshop. Demonstrated FEES. (2017)
• National Society for Leadership and Success: National leadership honor society that trains members in effective communication and team-building strategies. Selected for membership on the basis of leadership potential and academic achievement. (2017-2019)
• St. Vincent's House Senior Director: Managed clinic accounts as finance director. Coordinated weekly clinics. Trained and managed volunteers and Junior Directors. (2018-2019)
• Internal Medicine Class Representative: Elected by fellow residents both second and third years of residency. Advocated for fellow residents. Communicated with chief residents and program leadership to relay concerns amongst house staff. (2020-2022)
• UTHSCSA House Staff Council Representative: Represented internal medicine residents as a voting member. Attended monthly, multidisciplinary townhall meetings with fellow residents and program leadership to advocate for house staff issues. (2021-2022)

• St. Vincent's House: Provided free medical care to underprivileged Galveston area residents. (2015-2019)
• UTMB Halloween Carnival: Organized the costume contest at a Halloween Carnival for local children. (2015, 2016)
• Feminine Hygiene Products Drive: Collected feminine hygiene products for Women's Resource and Crisis Center. (2016)
• St. Vincent's Community Health Fair: Offered screening for diabetes and hypertension. Counseled patients at risk for chronic conditions. (2016-2017)
• Name That Book Tutor: Coached 5th grade students preparing for a district-wide reading comprehension competition. (2016)
• Osler Gala Decorations Committee: Provided decorations for the annual gala benefiting St. Vincent's House, Women's Resource and Crisis Center, and the Galveston County Animal Shelter. (2017)
• Grand Kids Festival: Helped set up festival tents and painted faces at a local festival introducing children to the arts.(2016, 2017)
• Food for Thought: Provided healthy meals for patients at St. Vincent's House. Participated in monthly nutrition workshops and cooking demonstrations to promote healthy eating habits. (2016-2019)
• Galveston County Science and Engineering Fair: Served as a judge in the Chemistry Division of a regional science fair. (2016, 2017)
• Patient Valentine Delivery: Made and delivered Valentine's Day cards to patients in Jennie Sealy Hospital. (2017)
• OSCE Tutoring: Tutored 1st year medical students preparing for a standardized clinical exam. (2017)
• Migrant Health Collaborative Clinic: Provided primary care to migrants newly established in San Antonio. (2022)
• Helping Interns Train, "HIT" Team: Served on a team of upper level residents offering assistance to beginning interns. Helped improve efficiency of medicine ward teams in July of the new academic year. (2020, 2021)
• South Texas VA Health Equity Committee: Participated in quarterly meetings as a physician representative to identify and address disparities within the VA healthcare system. (2023-present)
• Food Insecurity Working Group: Helped implement a physician screening tool to assess patients for food insecurity. Worked with fellow committee members to coordinate hospital wide food drive benefitting veterans in need. (2024-present)

• Medical Student Summer Research Program

George Kramer, Ph.D.; Michael Kinsky, M.D., The University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Anesthesia: Resuscitation Research Laboratory

Examined the effect of intrathoracic pressure manipulation on cardiac function and response to fluid therapy in anesthetized swine subjected to hemorrhage and volume resuscitation (2016)

• Alpha Omega Alpha

National medical honor society recognizing medical students who demonstrate excellence in academics and research and exhibit high moral character. (2018, selected as a third year medical student) 

• Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Cohort Leader

Led a cohort of internal medicine residents in developing and implementing a quality improvement initiative to increase the number of patient safety reports submitted by GME trainees. (2023-2024)

• Cardiac Output and Stroke Volume Enhancement Using Intrathoracic Pressure Regulation

      Poster presentation, Medical Student Summer Research Forum 2016

• Challenges in the Management of Graves' Hyperthyroidism and the Role of Thyroidectomy

      Poster presentation, University of Texas Medical Branch Internal Medicine Quality Improvement and Research Forum March 2018

• Monthly Laboratory Cost Reductions by Minimizing Redundant Tests Ordered at St. Vincent's Student Run Clinic

     Poster presentation, Society of Student Run Free Clinics Annual Meeting February 2018

• Monthly Laboratory Cost Reductions by Minimizing Redundant Tests Ordered at St. Vincent's Student Run Clinic

     Poster Presentation, University of Texas Medical Branch Internal Medicine Quality Improvement and Research Forum March 2018

• The Heart Echoes the Body

     Podium presentation, Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, The University of Texas Medical Branch March 2018

• Transorbital Embolization of a Thrombosing Carotid Cavernous Fistula

     Poster presentation, NANOS Annual Meeting March 2018

• Monthly Laboratory Cost Reductions by Minimizing Redundant Tests Ordered at St. Vincent's Student Run Clinic

     Poster presentation, 59th Annual National Student Research Forum April 2018

• Unexplained Destructive Nasal Lesions in Half-Brothers: A Possible Case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

     Poster presentation, European Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology Annual Congress June 2018

• Ethnic Disparities in Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL): A Large-Scale Population Based Analysis of Hispanics with HL in Texas

     Poster presentation: American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition 2021

• Ethnic Disparities in Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL): A Large-Scale Population Based Analysis of Hispanics with HL in Texas

     Podium presentation, Mays Cancer Center Annual Research Symposium 2021

• Survival and Outcomes for T-Cell Lymphomas in a Ubiquitous Hispanic Community: A Texas Cancer Registry Retrospective Study

     Poster presentation: American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition 2021

• Ophthalmic Findings in a Child with Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration

     Poster presentation, WSPOS September 2021

• Inflammatory Arthritis in HIV+ Patients

     Podium presentation, Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, The University of Texas Health Science Center April 2022

• Swonke ML, Smith SA, Ohlstein JF, Siddiqui F, Szeremeta W, Pine HS. Unexplained destructive nasal lesions in half-brothers: A possible case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngology. 2019
• Dayton Young, MD, Jordan Rawl, MD, Devarajan Karthik, MD, MBA, Sarah Smith, BBA & Lindsey Megow BS. (2019). Otologic Surgery. In M. Chaaban (Ed.), Crush Otolaryngology Boards. Hauppauge NY: Nova Science Publishers
  Board review book chapter in outline format describing various otologic and neurotologic procedures, their indications, contraindications, and potential complications. Personal contribution includes overview of facial nerve decompression.
• Lyons LJ, Smith SA, Diaz O, et al. Percutaneous transorbital embolization of a carotid cavernous fistula. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2019;32(3):382-384. Published 2019 May 24.
• Sushanth Kakarla, Gerardo Manuel Rosas, Sarah Allison Smith, Brian Warnecke, Joel E Michalek, Qianqian Liu, Adolfo Enrique Diaz Duque; Ethnic Disparities in Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL): A Large-Scale Population Based Analysis of Hispanics with HL in Texas. Blood 2020; 136 (Supplement 1): 29–30.
• Gerardo Manuel Rosas, Sushanth Kakarla, Brian Warnecke, Sarah Allison Smith, Joel E Michalek, Qianqian Liu, Adolfo Enrique Diaz Duque; Survival and Outcomes for T-Cell Lymphomas in a Ubiquitous Hispanic Community: A Texas Cancer Registry Retrospective Study. Blood 2020; 136 (Supplement 1): 17–18.
• Munaf Al kadhimi, Amanda M. Moore, Christopher R. Frei, Lance Brannman, Ion Cotarla, Andrew Frankart, Tiernan Mulrooney, Kelly R. Reveles, Paromita Datta, Jennifer M. Whitehead, Kathy Franklin, Renee Reichelderfer, Madison Williams, Ryan Williams, Sarah Smith, Xavier Jones, Zohra Nooruddin. Treatment Interruptions and Discontinuations among Patients with Stage III Unresectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Durvalumab at the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2022 40:16 suppl, 8554-8554