Michael J. Smith, PhD

Michael J. Smith, PhD 

Professor of Cardiovascular Perfusion 

Program Director of Cardiovascular Perfusion

Michael.Smith@qu.edu

BS, MS, PhD, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

I am the director and professor of Cardiovascular Perfusion and a graduate of the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I am a board-certified clinical perfusionist and is licensed in the State of Connecticut. I have been the director of the program at Quinnipiac, which is part of the Biomedical Sciences Department, since August of 1990. I coordinate student clinical placement in hospitals across the country, and teaches PR 506 Pharmacologic Intervention, and PR 516, Physiologic Monitoring.

Research projects, in collaboration with faculty in the Yale School of Medicine, and Yale-New Haven Hospital, have focused on the mechanisms of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and investigating the efficacy of pharmaceutical compounds being developed to attenuate the response during cardiopulmonary bypass. There have also been investigations into the application of compounds to block steps in the complement cascade which occurs when blood contacts foreign surfaces, such as plastic tubing during extracorporeal circulation.

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